Would you...if you had to?

**00Hellsing00** · 10-05-2005 10:23 PM

It is never easy to make these choices really , however i would pull the plug. I think they would find more happiness and peace in passing on , rather than lying in a coma like state , totally uable to move...

I hate such decisions..

**Regex** · 10-06-2005 01:48 PM

If you had only one leg and the only way you could get around was hopping on your one good leg and they made all sorts of hopping illegal... would you still be able to mobilize, and if so how?

**Zedekiah** · 10-06-2005 01:50 PM

You'd ask Lon to theorize it and then later make a nice thread about it.

That's the solution to everything in the universe.
And 42 is no longer the answer. Lon is.

**Daenerys** · 10-06-2005 01:56 PM

Lon's the answer to rediculous riddles. Like..

Who was the man who had no time on his hands, yet still was able to think up rediculous threads?

**Wandering Samurai** · 10-06-2005 01:59 PM

If there was absolutly no way they would recover I'd pull the plus and ask them to let him/her to die by another way instead of starvation.

**Daenerys** · 10-06-2005 02:01 PM

I don't know, I'm tempted to live my life as a vegatable. I wonder what'd it'd be like.

**____** · 10-06-2005 03:17 PM

I was in kind of a situation like this. My grandmother was living on life support and all that. All she could do was stay in bed and be in a lot of pain. We decided to let her go. She agreed and was happy that we did that.
So yeah, I guess I would. However, it depends on the situation. But most likely yes. I'd let them go.

**Chaos Master Dark** · 10-06-2005 06:07 PM

It is the laws of time.
the ones to die, die wheather humans interfere or not.
Death is only a matter of time.

**Teh Donny Koro** · 10-06-2005 06:55 PM

I'd pull the plug. No use in letting them suffer that agony. Unless it was my worthless ex-boyfriend, or my uncle. Them, I keep on the life support JUST so they could suffer.

**Light Galaxia Kitten** · 10-06-2005 07:14 PM

I'd take care of them for the rest of the day.. and then pull the plug.

**LXnekket** · 10-06-2005 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Member Name

If you had only one leg and the only way you could get around was hopping on your one good leg and they made all sorts of hopping illegal... would you still be able to mobilize, and if so how?

As this question is a lot more thought provoking and interesting, I'd have to say that rolling is my choice of transportation.

Can you make more threads Aaron? I need questions and threads that make me think. Especially deep ones.

**Queen-of-Mars** · 10-06-2005 07:48 PM

Pull the plug. This happened recently, although it was to one of a good friend's mother, who had treated me like her own kid for the fifteen years I had known her. She died of cancer rather quickly, as it was everywhere and spreading quickly. Pull it, and let them go.

**Raimego** · 10-06-2005 07:51 PM

iF I HAD SITUATION LIKE THAT, I WOULD HAVE TO LET THE DOCTORS PULL THE PLUG BECAUSE THE PERSON THAT IS SUFFERING CAN'T LIVE ANY MORE. iT IS SAD SITUATION.

**Zedekiah** · 10-06-2005 08:45 PM

i KNOW i DON'T THINK ANYONE SANE WOULD LET THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS SUFFER. mAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THOSE WHO DO THAT. iNCIDENTALLY MY CAPS LOCK?

**Gjallarhorn** · 10-06-2005 08:53 PM

pull the plug...1. why should they have to live if they are immoble, constantly connected to a machine, and suffering? its just cruelty to keep a person in that state.. 2. Money....although it does not matter anywhere near as much as the first reason, it is still a factor.....it costs a lot of money to keep a person on life-support, and it could easily put a family member into debt...the way i see it, the person who is on life-support would most likely be dead at that point anyway, and their family should be able to live their lives to the extent they can, and not be held back by a near-dead, suffering relative?....

Originally Posted by Member Name

If you had only one leg and the only way you could get around was hopping on your one good leg and they made all sorts of hopping illegal... would you still be able to mobilize, and if so how?

prosthetic leg....it is really a half-way science, but non the less, still very helpful....now, with some stem cells, it would be possible to make a whole new leg, but thats a whole other issue in itself....

**japonice_aeris** · 10-07-2005 05:49 AM

dont pull it...i hate it...i probably bear with it...and besides im AGAINST EUTHANASIA!!! what if he/she will actually live and ive pulled the plug...tsk tsk...

Mortals don't have the roghts to take another mortal's lives...but only God can do it...

**Anna-san** · 10-07-2005 06:51 AM

I don't really know... If they can talk, I'll ask them what path they want to take. If they can't... well... I'll wouldn't pull it... I'll regret it later.

**Garrett** · 10-07-2005 07:32 AM

Ultimately in the end, everyone has their own opinions and values towards the value of death over life. Most people are inclined to let a suffering member of the family move on instead of remain on earth and suffer, but what if whatever is after life is more painful than life itself. What if you become reincarnated and relive another life, re-experiencing everything you did in your previous life without the knowledge of it.

Maybe people want to let suffering family members "go" to put THEMSELVES at ease so they don't have to sit there watching them suffer day in and day out.

Ultimately in the ned, I would also be inclined to end the life of the person, hoping that they might find peace in an afterlife of sorts.

Luckily, I have never been in that situation before, and my sympathy goes out to all who have.

**Kewii** · 10-07-2005 08:27 AM

Lets cut out the insults a little bit guys. Thanks

**ladyanime** · 10-07-2005 10:36 AM

I would take them off life support if they were suffering from a disease that was compleatly incurable...(aids,hepatitus...bad things like that...these are the only thing comming to mind)

**Ayame chan** · 10-07-2005 12:12 PM

i could never kill any1 close to me.

**Darklord** · 10-07-2005 12:26 PM

hmmmm.....decisions...decisions.......I was in this posision.....with my uncle, he got shot in the head. He was alive but not with his own mentallity, my father had to choose. He disconnected the plug. But if it was my choice.....wait...if it was my father........I wouldnt pull the plug.......I would shoot him three times with his own gun...then pull the plug myself...and I will consider it murder....

**Feenie** · 10-07-2005 01:33 PM

Hate to sound insensitive, but I'd pull the plug personally if I had to choose, and I'd do without regrets. Lets face it, who really wants to be a vegtable?

**Cantelope** · 10-07-2005 03:30 PM

I echo Ami~chan's beliefs WHOLE heartedly. EXACTLY what my views are on this subject. I've already thought about it, and I'd let my family members die and go to a "better place" as many religious folks say. I just don't think it's HARDLY any FAIR to keep your relative in pain for the rest of their natural life.

Letting them off the machines doesn't have ANYTHING to do with spite, or cruelty. If you had lukemia, and HAD to sit in a hospital bed for the REST OF YOUR LIFE? I know I wouldn't. You're just a breathing corpse, and there's no point to it.

**Edward Tivrusky/4th** · 10-07-2005 03:32 PM

I would have them pull the plug so they would feel no pain

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