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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
How will human euthanasia be done? Like lethal injection as a capital crime punishment? Is that the "Humane way" to kill a human being? Will drug overdose be enough?
Killing a steer or pig for its meat is done humanely, yet provides decent cuts of meat. But we are NOT euthanizing humans for meat--we are basically putting a person out of their misery or cost to the healthcare system.
Maybe I just don't trust people enough to do the right thing by people without violating "humane euthanasia guidelines and actions" with agreed procedures... Maybe I have more belief in the research scientists and workers trying to cure human ailments.
Also the United States signed the Geneva Conventions which state that we just cannot euthanize people who are deemed not needed.
To me, dying is hardly EVER dignified, and mental sanity during a chronic illness inherently does not allow for a caring from a physician who actually meant their oaths. Some people would say: "NEVER AGAIN"... We, humans think we can justify killing all kinds of people, but that still does not make it right, ethical or moral for that matter.
And yes, I have seen the slow debilitation of 2 loved ones and the pain they suffered. But the finality killing someone because of ANY reason, it is just not me. That just means hospices will become slaughterhouses and I do not want my country to get involved with that fascism...
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For setting up standards for human euthanasia, we should look to Belgium and the Netherlands, where they have legalized human euthanasia (including physician assisted), or even Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (which is death by overdose.) There were no cases found with a cursory search that indicated that there are major problems with these policies.
When it comes to the Geneva Conventions:
1) The Geneva Conventions are speaking of people that are euthanized against their will, but the people we are talking about are asking for the right to die.
2) The US didn't have a problem breaking the Geneva Convention when it comes to the rights of the "detainees" (really prisoners of war) in Gitmo.
3) Other Geneva Convention signers have legalized euthanasia, Belgium and the Netherlands.
My grandmother survived the Holocaust at Dachau, then Bikenau, she survived fascism. It still didn't stop her from asking to die with dignity. There is a huge difference between murder and euthanasia. It seems that you can't separate the two.
You also can't seem to see that while you don't want it for yourself, that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be available to others. Hospices would NOT become slaughterhouses because those that choose to deteriorate and lose what little dignity they have will be allowed to do so, and those that want to retain their dignity and die would also be allowed as they wish. No, dying isn't dignified, but to allow people to die with what dignity they have left is the ultimate in humane, "do no harm" treatment. People shouldn't have to live in pain.
Maybe you do have faith in medical research, but until that research is in action and people DON'T suffer, then human euthanasia should be an option.