Discussion thread - the right to choose life

[Marigold2]

A great post.

Yes it has been posted by me on the forums I am on because I thought it would make a good discussion and it has. Not to stir up controversy. And guess what. Very few disagree with the majority here. And none of them have turned into a negative thread. All are being talked about in an adult manner. Just because YOU don't like peoples opinions on the matter does not mean it was started for the reason you stated. So don't imply something that I did not do please.

As the you calling it murder, which it is not. Then I guess that means every single pet owner, me and you included, are murderers as well. Ending someones suffering because that is their wish is not the same thing as killing someone agianst their will.

[Queen of Poop]

I believe is someone is suffering they should be allowed to have that suffering end. The same as I've done for 6 of my pets over the years. When their quality of life diminished to the point that living was no longer a good thing I made the choice to let them go. Painful as it was/is. Why do we treat our pets better than ourselves?

This next comment is pretty graphic, warning you ahead of time.

Why, when my sister's brains were oozing out of every orifice in her head did the doctors feel the need to bring her back from not one, not two, but three heart attacks? Thank goodness she was finally allowed to die when my parents said next one, let her go. If she had survived she would have been a mere shell of herself. She needed to be let go and she was.

3 months later my brother was in a car accident. Similar to my sister, he had a serious head injury, following surgery it was determined he was brain dead. We allowed his organs to be harvested and he was let go.

Neither one of them would have wanted to live in the state they would have been in had they survived.

Bottom line, end the suffering. No one, be they human or animal should be made to suffer.