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Originally Posted by analog
A few people from the "if you were in Terri Schiavo's shoes, what would you want done?" poll/thread have complained that the poll is bullshit, and the real question is whether or not each one of us would have the grapes to pull the plug ourselves, if the table was turned that way.
So here you go- vote and show the other poll just how odd we all are in our opinions.
As lebell said, with slight variation for this use:
Drop the political party shit and answer the question honestly.
If a dozen or more doctors declared all your loved one's higher brain functions to be zilch, would you want them to be kept alive as a vegetable? Would you pull the plug? And I mean YOU. Personally.
I would. One day to say goodbye, then euthanasia.
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I think euthanasia should be allowed in some cases when it clearly confers with the patients wishes. If there is definite evidence that it is what they wanted. But allowing others to make the decision strikes me as too dangerous...
And I personally would not pull the plug. If I knew it was the wish of a person close to me, I would not actively stop it, but I would be prepared to be the person who made the decision, because I dont think I could live with that.