I have the right to choose to die!

**vseehua** · #1 21-05-2008 **I have the right to choose to die!**

Apparently, some in the UK are giving out cards that lets people to tell the doctor not to treat them in case of a life threatening condition.

The card that lets you choose death

**youngyew** · #2 21-05-2008

It has actually been practised in US for a while:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_resuscitate

Al-Bert · #3 21-05-2008

Doctor and physician do not have the right to keep someone alive?

**youngyew** · #4 21-05-2008

The idea of DNR (do not resuscitate) is, everyone has the right to specify that in a terminal, emergency condition where the most likely outcome is being kept alive by artificial ventilators, they don't want to be resuscitated or kept alive artificially.

I think it's fair enough.

Gabrielle90 · #5 21-05-2008

doctors and physicians do have the obligation to keep people alive... but then, people have the right to choose to stay alive or die... people's decisions to die make doctors and physicians' life hard... it is very immoral to leave someone to die without saving them... but due to the people's decisions to die, the doctors and physicians have to respect their decisions not to treat them... can u see the struggle in doctors and physicians mind??? it is such a contradictions...

Jace · 05:26 PM

is dis legal in malaysia? coz my grandpa was in dis condition n my family chose DNR cz even if he's kept alive, he'll hav 2 live on an artificial ventilator...it's sad to see him dying away when da nurses pulled away da machine frm his mouth when he was brought back frm da hospital into our house....the nurses oso cant help but cry..

celestial_sacred · #7 21-05-2008

Better die than suffer but this really depends on the individual.

Shoblast · #8 21-05-2008

once/if i hit 80 i'm going to tattoo "Do Not Resuscitate" on my chest, heh.

kintaro_kun · #9 21-05-2008

in that case, this sets a precedent for the legalisation of suicides, on their own definition of "unbearable living conditions".

Shoblast · #10 21-05-2008

Its nothing really new anyway.

Doctors have been forced to watch as patient die from easily curable injuries because the patient is a Jehovah's Witness and those loonies refuse blood transfusions.

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youngyew ReCom Addict Administrator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 5,738	#2 21-05-2008 It has actually been practised in US for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_resuscitate __________________ [][][][flickr] Check out our ReCom wiki! Do contribute by writing or editing the existing articles so that everyone now and in the future can benefit from it!

Al-Bert Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 439	#3 21-05-2008 Doctor and physician do not have the right to keep someone alive? __________________ In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Jace Less Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 135	#6 21-05-2008 is dis legal in malaysia? coz my grandpa was in dis condition n my family chose DNR cz even if he's kept alive, he'll hav 2 live on an artificial ventilator...it's sad to see him dying away when da nurses pulled away da machine frm his mouth when he was brought back frm da hospital into our house....the nurses oso cant help but cry.. Last edited by Jace; 21-05-2008 at 05:26 PM.

celestial_sacred Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 154	#7 21-05-2008 Better die than suffer but this really depends on the individual. __________________ ::LiveJournal:: ::DeviantArt:: ::Tegaki E::

Shoblast Slightly Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 545	#8 21-05-2008 once/if i hit 80 i'm going to tattoo "Do Not Resuscitate" on my chest, heh.

kintaro_kun Slightly Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 750	#9 21-05-2008 in that case, this sets a precedent for the legalisation of suicides, on their own definition of "unbearable living conditions". __________________ What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. - Adolf Hitler

Shoblast Slightly Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 545	#10 21-05-2008 Its nothing really new anyway. Doctors have been forced to watch as patient die from easily curable injuries because the patient is a Jehovah's Witness and those loonies refuse blood transfusions.