Why is it ok to eutanise an animal when its in pain but not a human?

ModerndayMadman

Because people seem to have this crazy notion that no matter how much pain and suffering someone is going through, they ALWAYS want to live. Since this is obviously not true, they'll be damned if you try to change the way they see the world.

Oregan's Death With Dignity Act is a fantastic bill and it will just be a matter of time before more states begin adopting similar legislation.

Sway 26

I feel that if a person wants to be finally relieved from the massive amounts of pain they are from such a situation as a terminal illness, that they should be free to make that decision.

Unfortunately our society does not place as much importance on an animals life as it does a humans.

Heinz M

Arbitrary laws

Shane

Doesn't make any sense to me either. Humans should have the choice to end their lives when afflicted with a painful terminal illness. But Christians believe that suicide is a sin so the "moral majority" won't agree to it.

gone

I agree with you
but it has to do with religion
"God gave you life and only He can take it" and all that crap

Smudgeward

Sadly it has more to do w. the amount of money doctors and lawyers make out of the life and death trade than principles or ethics.

jy9900

Because animals do not have legal rights. they are considered and treated as property.

In Canada they are currently fighting the laws about this, but at the moment it is still considered murder to take another persons life

FRAGINAL-NOYPI

Animals are not protected with laws unlike humans. There must be legislation to strengthen animals rights particularly on eutanasia.

Rumplestiltskin.

dont know ive always wondered that, but if i was dying and i had no cure ide want die when i choose, not them, but if i was on a life support machine unconsious then they can turn it off????????????, seems strange? if ive got cancer say and ime going die anyway, whats the point of keeping me alve another day, week, theres no point at all.

CAPTAIN BEAR

A very good question but too sensitive for any politicians
to handle just like gay marriages. No one wants to jeopedise their careers on this issue. Doctors also have
their own sets of ethics to follow and to top it off, it is an
offence to commit suicide.

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gingertod

who says it's ok - it may be legal but not everyone thinks it's ok
I see your point but on the whole animals cannot communicate their pain to humans at all
humans USUALLY can (but I see your point when people are too ill to do that)

Maid Angela

There are other considerations. Time of death is important in a lot of cases for legal reasons by artificially altering it you can affect all sorts of things

Sainteh

It's pretty obvious that the person should request it and then they should get it, but no one cares that the animal is scared of the euthanisia this matters because if it scared that's a will to live and shouldn't be put down.

Cheez_Mastah

Good question, but I think when it comes down to it, the state feels that animalsdont have a soul and can always be 'replaced'. But I have to agree with you, they should be the same thing, kill either, there should be a punishment.

sincere12_25

WOW - great question!
Probly cuz with a person one can lock them up in a hospital or jail (if the person was in so much pain that they sought comfort in a once-legal and ubiquitous plant); and then claim those shut-ins - errr "patients" have rights, and demand that those rights be provided for monetarily.
"Monetarily" There's yur answer.

mcdannells

To my understanding our state still allows this. I agree with you!

Sierra One

It's all to do with the Hippocratic oath , doctors take an oath to save lives , not take them

jboufe

who knows

fr_chuck

because one is a aninmal that people will not pay money to treat, and the other is a perosn, you don't kill people you treat them.

If you don't know the difference between animals and respect human life, society is indeed failing

buttercup

Not the same rules for animals as humans, my friend.

toietmoi

The answer is the quality of life.
In human there is no such thing as life not worth living
in animals however, there is!

GOPneedsarealconservative

Because it is a slippery slope. Who decides when a person is killed? Look at abortion, women want abortions because they have stretch marks or do not feel like it.

Society must have standards.

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