Quotes About Euthanasia

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The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Deer get to live in the wild, and then they die fairly quickly from a well-placed shot to the vitals. For a deer, the most likely alternatives are a slower and more painful death by a nonhuman predator (i.e., getting torn apart by a coyote), starvation, or disease. Being killed by a skilled human hunter may well be the least painful way for a deer to die.

Euthanasia is a topic that taps into deeply personal views of dignity and fear but, mostly, spirituality.

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short - a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

But now that you mention it, will you promise to off me when I'm ninety and never leave home without an oxygen tank? Make a day of it. Just roll me and my wheelchair off the George Washington Bridge and call it a life. Deal? The request seemed to make her smile. Deal. They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony. 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?'?

Los nazis consideraban la eutanasia como una clase de ejecución casi ética y la reservaban para miembros de su propia raza

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

In a country like ours where the poor barely have the right to live, a legally recognised right to die would push them to the very margins of healthcare services.

Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love.

there was a remarkably strong connection between knowledge about the euthanasia program and knowledge about the mass murder of Jews.

If public opinion were as solidly pro-euthanasia as the universities, America would be full of suicide clinics already.

I've had to put horses down on the farm before, and it's very, very sad.

There were idiots amongst them – morons. I often opened my mouth too wide and let them have it. 'My God,' I'd say to them, 'euthanasia passed you by, didn't it,' and I'd tell my wife when I got home, 'these morons got overlooked by the euthanasia.

All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.