01-18-2019, 08:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-18-2019, 08:36 PM by EvieTheAvocado.)
Euthanasia: a good and gentle death
Euthanasia: a good and gentle death
I think that euthanasia should be available, as an option, for 100% of mentally healthy adults and 100% of terminally ill people.
A child that isn't terminally ill or an adult that is so severely mentally ill that their perspective is distorted so that they'd be very grateful to still be alive after they recover ... are literally the only examples of people who I think shouldn't have euthanasia as an option.
In the past when I was suicidal I would gladly have taken the option of being euthanized if I could have done. I'm extremely glad, now, that it was never an option in my country. But only because I was psychotic and very mentally ill and I am able to live a very happy life now that I have recovered (and the suicidality only lasted a few weeks so I'm very glad that I wasn't allowed to throw away decades of potential happiness because of that).
I also think that a child isn't mentally or emotionally mature enough to make a decision to end their lives. But I don't think that that should apply to a terminally ill child. In that case I think it's just a matter of ending extreme pain sooner rather than in a few months time.
A child that isn't terminally ill or an adult that is so severely mentally ill that their perspective is distorted so that they'd be very grateful to still be alive after they recover ... are literally the only examples of people who I think shouldn't have euthanasia as an option.
In the past when I was suicidal I would gladly have taken the option of being euthanized if I could have done. I'm extremely glad, now, that it was never an option in my country. But only because I was psychotic and very mentally ill and I am able to live a very happy life now that I have recovered (and the suicidality only lasted a few weeks so I'm very glad that I wasn't allowed to throw away decades of potential happiness because of that).
I also think that a child isn't mentally or emotionally mature enough to make a decision to end their lives. But I don't think that that should apply to a terminally ill child. In that case I think it's just a matter of ending extreme pain sooner rather than in a few months time.
My Argument Against Free Will Wrote:(1) Ultimately, to control your actions you have to originate your original nature.
(2) But you can't originate your original nature—it's already there.
(3) So, ultimately, you can't control your actions.
