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Should euthanasia be legalised in Australia?

  • No it shouldn't

    Votes: 18 30.0%
  • Yes it should

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annagurl r u fukin srs. u actually bothered to go through hundreds of pages to find a thread from 2002.
 
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annagurl r u fukin srs. u actually bothered to go through hundreds of pages to find a thread from 2002.
lol

you know it ;)


loljokes
you dont actually think I sorted through hundreds of pages do you?
I just clicked on the last few pages of bos lol
 

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It's illegal because one of the first lines in the hippocratic oath is "first, do no harm" and by killing a patient you are doing harm. So it goes against medical ethics for the doctor to kill the patient.
It's different to nfr which means that if the patient's condition decreases rapidly, the doctor cannot administer any treatment to save the patient and must let the patient die if it comes to that. U are however allowed to give analgesia for palliative care.
 
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Maybe by living, they are in more harm. What if they have a disease or something that's killing them slowly and painfully? Is it harmful to relieve them of their suffering?
 

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It's illegal because one of the first lines in the hippocratic oath is "first, do no harm" and by killing a patient you are doing harm. So it goes against medical ethics for the doctor to kill the patient.
It's different to nfr which means that if the patient's condition decreases rapidly, the doctor cannot administer any treatment to save the patient and must let the patient die if it comes to that. U are however allowed to give analgesia for palliative care.
Isn't amputation technically a harm as well?

What I'm saying is that one harm (such as amputation) offsets a greater harm (the possibility of gangrene or infection spreading etc.), and surely this would be acceptable.

Similarly, euthanasia offsets the greater harm of a life the individual obviously doesn't consider worth living in constant pain.
 
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It's illegal because one of the first lines in the hippocratic oath is "first, do no harm" and by killing a patient you are doing harm. So it goes against medical ethics for the doctor to kill the patient.
It's different to nfr which means that if the patient's condition decreases rapidly, the doctor cannot administer any treatment to save the patient and must let the patient die if it comes to that. U are however allowed to give analgesia for palliative care.
give them some drugs and say dont take more than x amount or you will die

they take > x

profit?
 

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It's illegal because one of the first lines in the hippocratic oath is "first, do no harm" and by killing a patient you are doing harm. So it goes against medical ethics for the doctor to kill the patient.
It's different to nfr which means that if the patient's condition decreases rapidly, the doctor cannot administer any treatment to save the patient and must let the patient die if it comes to that. U are however allowed to give analgesia for palliative care.
The hipprocratic oath also is quite explicit in prohibiting abortion

u dumb goon

For this reason, and the dumb reasoning you have outlined, the hypocratic oath is basically only cited by right-wing cranks nowadays. It isn't even taken in lots of schools, think 4 urself.

It's different to nfr which means that if the patient's condition decreases rapidly, the doctor cannot administer any treatment to save the patient and must let the patient die if it comes to that. U are however allowed to give analgesia for palliative care.
In reality though, doctors deliberately kill their patients all the time under the guise of 'analgesia', analgesia is a socially acceptable facade for what they're knowingly doing, deliberately decreasing respirations.
 

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Euthanasia is the biggest non-issue

Let people die peacefully

Shut the fuck up and let them die

no

shut up

no for real you have no counter-argument

Let them die

nah cunt shut up

let them die
 

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M8 you must consider the Dutch experience. American surgeon Robin Bernhoft relates an incident in which a Dutch doctor euthanized a twenty-six-year-old ballerina with arthritis in her toes. Since she could no longer pursue her career as a dancer, she was depressed and requested to be put to death. The doctor complied with her request and merely noted that "one doesn't enjoy such things, but it was her choice."(5)
 

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M8 you must consider the Dutch experience. American surgeon Robin Bernhoft relates an incident in which a Dutch doctor euthanized a twenty-six-year-old ballerina with arthritis in her toes. Since she could no longer pursue her career as a dancer, she was depressed and requested to be put to death. The doctor complied with her request and merely noted that "one doesn't enjoy such things, but it was her choice."(5)
fuck that guy was so stupid

h8 qanda
 

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Euthanasia is the biggest non-issue

Let people die peacefully

Shut the fuck up and let them die

no

shut up

no for real you have no counter-argument

Let them die

nah cunt shut up

let them die
This lol. A person should be in charge of their own life. No one else should.
 

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