I am happy to know that my great aunt despite her advancing senility, was kept in as much comfort as possible until she had her sudden heart attack at the nursing home. I have told myself that I would do everything I could to ease the natural deterioration until their natural death.

Opponents of Euthanasia make an all too convincing case against the practice. Yet, on the other hand, in the highly likely event that I contracted an illness that made for a slow, painful and debilitating death (I project it happening in no less than four and a half years) I could just as easily see myself throwing all those rules out the window. If I can’t have a physician give me the triple-dose of morphine that ended Freud’s life, I would just as easily put a bullet in my tumor ridden brain. I don’t think the physician assisted suicide is legal in New York, and had I lived in Washington last November, I would have, with a heavy heart voted against the measure to legalize euthanasia, yet I would have more than a few qualms either way.

Does that sound contradictory? Yes it is. But philosophy, the human condition and indeed life/death are just that complicated.

Well, we put down animals if they’re suffering because it’s humane, so why not do this with humans?
But then, you just know, there will be some people who will totally abuse it to murder people.

I don’t think there is a correct answer for this really..