The Right to Live What is the value of a human life? ... The first point is, do not throwaway life when it is most convenient, but live day-to-day. How important is life? ... No one will want to fight to live or even have the expectation to live long if euthanasia becomes the common practice for ending one's life. ... Lastly, value life and the life of those around you. ...
It is understandable that people cannot live forever, and death is an inevitable event. ... When people understand this fact, their life may be changed, as well as their values and life choices. ... This form of new existence may be inverted into not only human, but also animal form, and is not random, but based on how you lived your life while you were alive. ... Christians, Jews and Muslims "believe that each person has only one life, but that the soul survives death to live on in either heaven or hell for eternity"" (Keene, 2002, p. 82). ... It is the fact that the eternal life exists, and ...
Usually, family members decide whether the patient should live or die, not the patient himself. For example, a person in a coma is unable to choose whether he or she wants to live or die. ... Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide if you should live or not. ... Why should they not give us the right to decide if we want to live or not? ... It is not logical that we can choose in all those other decisions if we cannot first choose to live or die. ...
A good example is Friedrich Nietzsche, a great German philosopher of 19th century, who said, "In a certain state it is indecent to live longer. ... To him the meaning of life was lost, if he could not live independently, physical dependency would sicken his spirit. He wanted "to die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly" (422). ... Sometimes people want to live on, even though the pain is unbearable, in order to do or finish up something important. ... Other people want to live on for a more general reason: as long as they have any sense at all, they think that just being ali...
"So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen"(2 Sam 1:10). ... Euthanasia is an improper way of ending life and merely a way for people to escape the pains of life. ... These people are not on life support and would not die if they were taken from the hospital, but they would be unable to live a normal life again. ... The family just decides that they have nothing left to live for. ... There is no need to end life now, live it out and enjoy the remainder of your time with your loved ones. ...
Sarah Harris, age thirty-five, had three children and lived in New York and was unable to return to a normal life. ... I ask the state to devise some means to rid me of the horror of my life" (Patterson). ... Direct euthanasia is ending a life by one's direct act. Indirect euthanasia is ending a life through another person's act. ... Passive euthanasia is ending a life by not taking action, while active euthanasia is ending a life through an overt act. ...
At that time, his wife was suffering from terminal cancer and because she felt that there was no quality in the life she had left, she chose suicide. ... This movement led Derek to found the Hemlock Society five years later and today the organization is well known as the "Compassion in Dying and End-of-Life Choices organization.... As a last resort, some of those sufferers might seek other care, the physician assisted suicide, to end life. ... Then along came the fourth state, Vermont, passing the End of Life Choice Law, effective in May 20th, 2013 [Ver14] and last, the newly enacted law ...
A major concern is that if physician-assisted suicide is legalized it would be abused by family as a way to dispose of undesirable members, or by depressed patients who may have a curable illness but who simply no longer wish to live. ... The prolonging of life due to advances in medical science also plays a key role. According the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the average life expectancy is currently 77.2 years compared to almost a century ago when it was only 47 years ("Life"). ... Some more common ways of prolonging life are: use of certain medications and/or artificial life support m...
Beginning with the philosophical aspects of euthanasia we must first understand the importance of the sanctity of life. ... In Euthanasia: The Battle for Life, Dr. Raymond Bohlin discusses what the Bible says about life, suffering, and death. ... As one who is dying, I have especially come to appreciate the gift of life. ... Kass (1991) in his article about death with dignity, says: " The deaths we most admire are those of people who, knowing that they are dying, face the fact frontally and act accordingly: They set their affairs in order; they arrange what could be final meetings with thei...
This was the connection we have to the life source. ... Rilke connected us all through a "life source" as well. ... (The Sixth Elegy, p. 205) This "life source" is where both men find God. ... He did write quite a bit about angels, but he used them more as an aloof standard that humanity should attempt to live up to, as well as an interesting comparison to the simple animals, not as a religious figure. ... It is also apparent that since Rilke saw angels (and animals) as such an aloof, impossible standard to live up to, there was no way to achieve their "unfiltered" view of the world. ...
The epic of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, and the Iliad, with its focus on the menis of Achilles, provide a look at heroic life and its relationship with death and immortality. ... To begin, Achilles and Gilgamesh have some very basic similarities of their positions in life. ... Neither man is concerned with family life nor with romantic relationships with women, such things have no place in the epic hero's life. The major relationships in each hero's life are with their mother, to whom they look for advice and protection, and with their heroic partner. ... Both characters then are in...
