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Should euthanasia be legal in Ireland?

  • 03-10-2013 06:02PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2


    Both euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal under Irish law. Active euthanasia is legal in Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg whilst passive euthanasia is legal in other countries.

    Shouldnt a person have a choice in this? My opinion is that a person should have the right to choose euthanasia if they are proven to be of sound mind.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I think this thread should be euthanised.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Yes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Where someone quality of life is so poor and painful due to illness the. I would be in favour of it.
    But the lines get blurred too easily.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Providing they get the right documentation, I believe all Asian youths should be free to come here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Yes it should be legal murders ,rapists ,child molesters
    Rather than prison euthanasia should be the only sentence


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Icepick


    Yes


    Where is the poll?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Atari Jaguar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,209 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Talking with another Dad at the school gates this afternoon. His gran is 98 and in hospital at the moment, not doing too well. They had a family meeting with her doctor recently and he suggested fitting a pacemaker.

    My Dad passed away a couple of years ago. He worked six days a week until he was 81, then his body and mind just gave up and he spent the next three years being looked after full time by my Mum with a couple of visits a day from the Home Nurse. He had a mild form of Alzheimers and was incapacitated until the last 9 months when he was virtually vegetative. He had a long list of pills to be taken daily and a huge amount of supplies that we needed to care for him at home - bed pads etc

    It does make me wonder in whose interests are peoples' lives extended. Is it for the families or is it for the medical profession/industries?

    We are all going to die someday. Why not let people go with a shred of dignity?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    Talking with another Dad at the school gates this afternoon. His gran is 98 and in hospital at the moment, not doing too well. They had a family meeting with her doctor recently and he suggested fitting a pacemaker.

    My Dad passed away a couple of years ago. He worked six days a week until he was 81, then his body and mind just gave up and he spent the next three years being looked after full time by my Mum with a couple of visits a day from the Home Nurse. He had a mild form of Alzheimers and was incapacitated until the last 9 months when he was virtually vegetative. He had a long list of pills to be taken daily and a huge amount of supplies that we needed to care for him at home - bed pads etc

    It does make me wonder in whose interests are peoples' lives extended. Is it for the families or is it for the medical profession/industries?

    We are all going to die someday. Why not let people go with a shred of dignity?

    You're asking the same question there, they're both selfish acts if the family want to keep them alive against their will, especially if they have to suffer for something they don't want to do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I'd like if it were legalised but the problem then becomes who does the euthanasianising? Can't be fun to have to end somebodys life.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 Nattyyyy


    Yes, it should be a persons choice and right only they can decide.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Leogirl


    Yes it should, with very strict guidelines & laws. I watched a close relative die slowly from MS and I am pretty sure they'd have preferred to die without pain & with their dignity intact if they'd had the choice.

    I have MS too & I really hope the laws change in the future - I do not want to face the possibility of years slowly wasting away. Then again, the cigs will probably do me in first :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    lahalane wrote: »
    I'd like if it were legalised but the problem then becomes who does the euthanasianising? Can't be fun to have to end somebodys life.

    I wouldn't say fun but I can imagine that (for the right professional) it can be quite rewarding to let someone die with dignity and save them years (potentially) of living in agony.

    And yes, should absolutely be legal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    My nanny wanted to go away to die but was also donating her body to science so couldn't! She spent the guts of 4 years in and out of hospitals not getting any better but sicker with each hospital trip!

    The last 4 months of her life she was bed bound! Wanted to die and asked us when was she going and could she just die!

    All she wanted was her life to end but nobody could help her!

    I 100% agree it should be legal here!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    A huge Yes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    It should be mandatory


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    The Church said we're not allowed

    /thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 Blondish


    Is it possible to travel to Belgium, Holland or Luxembourg to request euthanasia?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,409 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Yes, it should be legal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    This is something I think should be legalised. I know many of the replies here are in relation to old age and debilitating sicknesses and illnesses. IMO it should be fully legalised and allow one to make up their own mind. Suicide is rampant throughout Irish suicide so many people are deciding for themselves that they want to die. That life is no longer for them and they take the action into their own hands. Why should these people die alone hanging from trees or from any other method that's done to remove themselves from life when they can be helped in the process from a certain drug that's used for euthanasia.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Why should these people die alone hanging from trees or from any other method that's done to remove themselves from life when they can be helped in the process from a certain drug that's used for euthanasia.

    Why should physicians be expected to help physically healthy people die?

    Legalising it for suicidal people would set progresses made in mental health provisions back by about 100 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    This is something I think should be legalised. I know many of the replies here are in relation to old age and debilitating sicknesses and illnesses. IMO it should be fully legalised and allow one to make up their own mind. Suicide is rampant throughout Irish suicide so many people are deciding for themselves that they want to die. That life is no longer for them and they take the action into their own hands. Why should these people die alone hanging from trees or from any other method that's done to remove themselves from life when they can be helped in the process from a certain drug that's used for euthanasia.

    I suspect most people would still do it themselves anyway rather than have to face people and admit that they want to kill themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    It will be legal here within a decade!
    "There's nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come"


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 59 ✭✭loseyourself


    300 Hookers, Viagra and Cocaine to relieve the pain till your gone. Pain will slowly go away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Why should physicians be expected allowed to help physically healthy people die?

    There, make more sense like that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭Dilly.


    Have you seen the Terry Prachet documentary 'choosing to die'. You can find it on youtube. Informative but heartbreaking documentary about this issue. I feel it should be legalised yes. That documentary gives you a lot to think about though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Yeah it should be legal, with plenty of safe guards like a medical panel of some sort.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    It's infuriating when people come up with technical challenges to the law and use those challenges as arguments against the law being brought in in principle.

    Any change in the law has to be accounted for but the fundamental moral problem at the heart of the issue that people of sane mind should have the right to end their lives in the manner of their choosing cannot be denied except by nonsensical moralistic bull****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Keeping someone who is in chronic pain with no hope of ever getting better alive against their will should be illegal. Why should they be forced to exist in extreme pain when they would prefer to stop the pain and go with dignity.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Blondish wrote: »
    Is it possible to travel to Belgium, Holland or Luxembourg to request euthanasia?

    Not sure about Belgium or Luxembourg but you couldn't do it in Holland.
    There's a whole process to go through in cooperation with your GP.

    It's not quite as simple as travelling over and taking some pills.
    (although you probably could do that but I'm not sure it'd be classed as euthanasia)


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