Should Doctors Give Patients a Chance to Die Differently?

[FritzforPaul]

I think that everyone has the right to be treated the way they choose. I don't think doctors should make it harder for patients to die a "different" way.

Should Doctors Give Patients a Chance to Die Differently?

 

[angelatc]

No.

 

[RiseAgainst]

No.

I'm confused. Do you own your body, or does someone else?

 

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

Assisted Suicide is a no-no.

 

[FritzforPaul]

This is not assisted suicide..or I sure did not read the article like that.

 

[RiseAgainst]

Assisted Suicide is a no-no.

Why, do you own other peoples bodies?

Also, as noted this is NOT about assisted suicide, it's about choosing your own medical course.

 

[PierzStyx]

This is not assisted suicide..or I sure did not read the article like that.

Yeah. None of them read the article I bet. I agree with the article. If someone doesn't want a certain treatment for an illness they shouldn't be manipulated or forced into it. Dr. Paul has repeatedly talked about how people should have the right to determine their own care and use alternative medical treatments if they so wished.

 

[PierzStyx]

Why, do you own other peoples bodies?

Also, as noted this is NOT about assisted suicide, it's about choosing your own medical course.

Assisted suicide is different from suicide. Doctors take oaths to preserve life. If a person wishes to die a doctor should release them from the hospital to die as they wish. But helping them in the act? No. It crosses the moral boundary into manslaughter at that point.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

Like all social problems this is a state's rights issue...

 

[axiomata]

I find how doctors die more pertinent.

It's not something that we like to talk about, but doctors die, too. What's unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared with most Americans, but how little. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care that they could want. But they tend to go serenely and gently.

[EDIT]Well I too did not read the article, just the first few posts and figured (mistakenly) it was about assisted suicide. It was not, in fact it was about the article I linked to.

 

[RiseAgainst]

Assisted suicide is different from suicide. Doctors take oaths to preserve life. If a person wishes to die a doctor should release them from the hospital to die as they wish. But helping them in the act? No. It crosses the moral boundary into manslaughter at that point.

That's not what I asked. I asked if you own your own body. If you do, then you have no right to tell another what they can and cannot do with their body. You are attempting to force your view onto another against their will. I'm not asking you to agree with suicide, I'm asking you to respect the self-ownership of another individual.

 

[WilliamC]

Doctors don't get paid not to treat you, remember that.

In my own experience Doctors will always push whatever treatment they can to extend life, it's all they know how to do.

It's too bad that most people don't know how to stand up to Doctors and treat them as some sort of priest, which they are certainly not.

While I have a great deal of respect for (most) doctors, I do not revere them and when they treat me it is I who decide what is or is not done, not they.

I relate to them more as colleagues, not as authority figures, and I've never had any trouble out of them yet.

 

[onlyrp]

Ask the question differently : "Should a doctor allow a patient to die as he pleases?" "Should a doctor ever take away a person's choice of death?" "Should doctors preserve and protect a patient's chances and choices?"

 

[ZenBowman]

Absolutely. You own your body, you should be able to decide to end your life if you so choose, or delegate that responsibility to someone else.

If you disagree with this, then you believe the government owns our bodies.