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Originally Posted by kutulu
I don't really want to get very involved in this thread but unless you are a PETA person you can't make a comparison between euthanising pets and assisted suicide.
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Maybe to the vast majority but I can see a non- PETA comparison quite easily. If my chihuahua, Dinky, is in pain and not eating and suffering and the vet says that she needs to go, I would be as deeply hurt as if it were any other member of my family, but I would do what it took to give her peace. If I were dying and I were in pain 24/7 and there was no hope, then I would choose to be at peace.
I truly don't see a difference in a situation where a person loves their pet as family and putting either to sleep if they are suffering and the family member states they wish to die now and have no will to continue.
Pets a lot of times may stop eating to let you know they are ready to die, yet when a terminal patient does this, we, "as humane indivduals" will cram feeding tubes into them.
So you tell me now, why I should not see similarities. Because I do, after all, man is nothing more and nothing less than an animal himself and for centuries in many cultures people were allowed to commit suicide for any number of reasons(and in a lot of countries they are still allowed to)..... who are we to judge others and tell them they must live? That is between their God and them. I don't know the pain that cancer victim has lived with for the past year, and cannot go on. It is not my job to determine how much a pain, physical or mental a man has to take. Everyone has a breaking point and if a person reaches that point and they choose to end it all without hurting another then so be it.
May sound heartless and selfish, but I see forcing someone to live who truly wants to die as selfish, immoral and heartless. I don't get any closer to my spiritual heaven/nirvana/higher plane by judging any man on how they choose to die.