A mother dying from terminal cancer begged her daughter to end her suffering. The daughter took an electrical cord, showed it to her mother and strangled her. Would you end someone's life in a mercy killing if the person was suffering terribly?
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Koz_Dracon - Nelson Remembered
ANSWERS: 11
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umm that's painful. She should have just given her some sleeping pills.
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I think I would, if someone was really suffering and I loved them...I would help them stop hurting.
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Yes, in general, but I would question why she picked such a violent method. It sounds like there were some mother-daughter issues.
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Its worth bearing in mind from a Buddhist point of view that by accepting the suffering - it can reduce ones negative karmic balance. If one assists in a mercy killing, one takes life, and this has karmic consequence, though maybe not as much as killing in general.
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I absolutely would. I wouldn't have strangled her, perhaps, but I would do a mercy killing.
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thats a really hard and painful situation. i don't know what i would do. its hard to say, no one knows until they are put into such situation. i definitely feel like we should respect peoples personal decisions though. i don't think i would go as far as to strangulate someone but help them in whatever they need yes. this meaning finding pills putting them at their disposal ect...
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Yes.
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I would, although the example given seems to be unnecessarily painful. I would seek some sort of medical advice from a professional who was sympathetic to my loved one's suffering..I would also be absolutely willing to take the consequences of that action because mercy killing is offensive to some, and it might be one of those "some" who would be judging that action. But I would not care.
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Yes i would but not like your example i think thats a cruel way to help. i think i would try to find the most painless way to help her.
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id have to wait till faced with that situation to answer that truthfully, at this point no.
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My beta fish died recently. I had him for over three years; I bought him when I first moved into the dorm. I knew he was dying, and towards the end he couldn't even swim (the whole point of a fish's life). Every day when I came home, I felt a deep sense of torment when I looked at his tank. I knew I should flush him down the toilet and end his misery, but I couldn't. So, day by day I gazed into his tank, just waiting for him to die, until one day he did. It is difficult to kill something, even if it is dying. Then there is the question of what constitutes being killed?
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