When a person has been in an accident and is put into a coma, how long are you expected to wait? Do you need to keep them alive at the expense of your car? Your house? Your personal safety? How about when they are old, brittle, and can no longer breathe without pain? Do you expect them to have to wait another year of agony, of suffering, for them to die ofnatural? causes?.
Peter Singer tells his view on euthanasia (mercy killings) and why they should take place in some cases. It is a hard thing to decide, because in some cases the person might get better, and in some he might get worse. If there is a 90 year-old man who can't live without pain, which is more of a crime. Killing him, or letting him live? You really have to look at the pros and cons of both sides of the issue. One one hand, killing him will end his pain, but on the other hand, it cut off the chance for him to get better. Personally, I am a utilitarian. I decide each one case by case to see if he can get better, if it looks like he might, or if it looks like he might be better off.dead. Many people think it is insensitive to release someone of their life support, but leaving them on it may be more of a burden than a life saver. It is a hard case to decide, and it is made all the worse when it is someone who cannot communicate their wishes, or is not conscious enough of what is happening to decide.
Another similar thing that relates to euthanasia is abortion, when you know they will grow up into a terrible life. That usually leads to adoption, but we discussed in another entry whether it really is, indeed, killing someone if you have an abortion.
I don't think you should kill someone if they are mentally unable to live their lives (not comatose, but rather mentally ill). In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, one of the characters kills a mentally crippled character in an act of mercy, but was it really right to do so? Was the man really suffering? In conclusion, I think you really need to take it case by case and decide a) are they in pain, b) can they get better?, and c) is there a reason not to?.
Mercy killings raise many issues, legal and ethical. ... Mercy killing is far different from suicide. ... Some of these views accept mercy killing. ... Mercy killing, for some people, may be seen as a more humane way to die. Therefore mercy killing should be legalized....
The term euthanasia is fairly broad in scope, which is why it has been divided into "allowing someone to die", "mercy killing", and "mercy death" (Thiroux, 214). The practices of "allowing someone to die", "mercy killing", and "mercy death" (all forms of euthanasia) are acceptable and good in cases where either the party involved has requested such services or evidence has been presented to support the belief that the party involved would request such services if able. While most people may approve of "allowing someone to die" or "mercy death" in which the patient in question has taken active ...
Euthanasia or better known as mercy killing, is a practice of ending a life so as to release an individual life from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. ... Sometimes fully disabled people are felt sorry for and someone takes for granted that the disabled person is "suffering" thus killing them. ... Euthanasia may be "mercy" killing but it is still murder no matter what the circumstances. ... But killing is never the right thing to do, and society must never approve Euthanasia. ...
Hitler even called them "mercy killings." ... Brandt are charged with responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians to be designated by name, to the end that patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, can be granted a mercy killing" (Berenbaum 104). This decree opened the door to the killings of anyone seen as being different and incurable. ...
What we first must understand in order to answer that question is what euthanasia or "mercy killing" is. ... Are there more healthcare professionals assisting in mercy killings than we know? It is astounding the number of healthcare professionals that do assist in mercy killings. ... It seems that psychiatrists are more supportive of mercy killings, than cancer specialists (Stone para 71). ... Female doctors were more supportive of mercy killings than the male doctors (Stone para71). ...
Active euthanasia, also called mercy killings, is said to have occurred when the physician has actively done something to bring about the death of the patient. ... By allowing active euthanasia, we are in fact stating that killing an innocent human being is acceptable as long as there are sufficient circumstances to warrant such a killing. ... Killing an innocent human being is immoral therefore active euthanasia is immoral. ... Suicide is defined as the act of intentionally killing oneself. ...
It come from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy killing. ... The pro-euthanasia movement cheerfully hands the dirty work of the actual killing to the doctors who by and large, neither seek nor welcome the responsibility. ...
Mercy for the Merciful Mercy is a strange thing. ... The Misfit seems like a nearly merciful soul, one who could perhaps be swayed to lean towards mercy in a given situation. ... With this conclusion, he doesn't see the wrong in killing those who get in his way, regardless of the polite man he seems to be otherwise. ... To those who can see their own faults, accept them and the mercy granted to them by God and man, then mercy is a reasonable and wonderful thing. To those who are confused with their own faults and refuse mercy from God and man, then mercy is a thing that does not ex...
God then appears at the last moment before Isaac was given up and stops Abraham from killing Isaac. ... He demonstrated forgiveness by giving them another chance to live their lives and showed mercy by not killing them. ... He did this by showing mercy and forgave them for the sins that they had committed. God's mercy had been demonstrated over and over again. ... God acts as he does out of mercy and forgiveness, not insecurity. ...
