If you had an incurable cancer, would you commit suicide?!
Question: Doctor Kevorkian assisted hundreds of people to end their lives when they had incurable diseases. Would you go this route?
Answers: Doctor Kevorkian assisted hundreds of people to end their lives when they had incurable diseases. Would you go this route?
I am a supporter of assisted suicide when there are incurable diseases in the picture. Oregon is one state that they are legal and I applaud that state. We put our dogs down when they are in too much pain in their old age but we are not given the same consideration? Pure hogwash, we should be given every option! We have our say in our health care, whether or not we should have abortions but not in the dignity of our death?! If I were in such pain that there was not enough pain medication to make it bearable then I would have to say YES to assisted suicide. I would rather die in quiet and unscreaming dignity than put myself and my family through this. I do not believe in any other forms of suicide though. This is a health option that should be given to every terminal patient. It is a health care decision, not because you just can't stand the place your life is in at the moment. If you are given a death sentance shouldn't you also be given the choice of how you want to die?
No - I don't see any reason for ending your own life. Anything that we go through (IMO) is to test us, to make us stronger, or to strengthen our families in the long run. Everything has a purpose - just my opinion!
no, i will spend my life with my gf until i die, i want to see as long as possible. Because i only love her!
No!
In my book, committing suicide is against God. It's not right and it's not respecting yourself.
I would probably choose to die slowly. At least I could spend time with friends and family even if I was in bed or in pain because they mean the world to me :-)
I would live, get all my affairs in order, and live a stress free life.
No way - I've met people who were diagnosed with "incurable cancers" and they are still alive 20 years later!
I wouldn't just meekly accept a diagnosis like that - doctors are wrong all the time.
Maybe, maybe not. That would be up to me and not up to some holier than thou politicians or clergy(wo)men
its about the pain.. not the disease....
as of now.. the government is in control of how much pain you must endure... this is the issue....
if i was in that position... once the pain exceeds my ability to get the drugs aloud to me by this law .. then i would end it with something i can get
why people wont rise up and be outraged by this stupid law of limiting pain drugs is the real problem
thats actually a question i sorta had a little self debate about. if it was honestly incurable, and i had a short time to live (like too short for a cure to be found) then i would do everything that i would want to do in a lifetime and then when it came time that the disease started to make me too weak, id most likely take the suicide route instead of suffering.
sorta like when i was talking to my mom. i said that if me, her, and my brother were on the titanic, and it started to sink (knowing that with the financial position were in, we wouldnt be the upper class) i would pull a gun and shoot both of them in the head and then kill myself. i would rather die that way because i cant stand the thought of dying from drowning.
whats sorta funny is that my physicians name is dr kavorkian
Never, I would just live the rest of my life with the ones I love and have a blast.
Never! Our son committed suicide and it has left us in pain. That is a little over 10 years ago and we still miss him. People don't realize the pain and suffering their loved ones go through.
Our son was Schizophrenic and didn't know what he was doing.
No way.
In all honesty I would probably spend a lot of it down and depressed, but it would most definately give me a reason to do everything that, before, was "stupidly dangerous"... Bungie jumping.... Cliff Diving.... Sky diving... every instance in which there was extreme risk.
I guess in a round-about way, I might end up killing myself... but not intentionally.
not sure,,, ive seen how someone dying of cancer slowly hurts family so much, i wouldnt want my family to suffer, i guess id think about it!, sad stuff xxxxxxxxxxxx
No!
I think it depends. My mom had incurable cancer and tried to commit suicide. I would never have thought that she would try to do that. But, she was 90 years old, did not have any quality of life, and didn't want to suffer. My husband died of cancer, and when he was young, always said he would commit suicide if he got an incurable illness. He didn't. He fought that cancer to the end. But then, he was only 41 years old. No one can say what they will definitely do unless they are confronted with that situation. I support right to die laws. People should have a choice of dying with dignity and pain free. They should not be excoriated for doing so.