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Originally Posted by Me!
I agree with that, no-one should ever have endure such pain. But what I'm saying is that the person would have to be 100% sure they want to go through with it and know everything that will happen and make sure they think about it long and hard. I think its unethical to make a decision like this for a person who cannot communicate that they are in unbearable pain as no-one could ever have an inkling as to how they feel (e.g if the person was in a coma?). What if they weren't feeling any pain for example? What if they were slowly getting better and about to wake up, but doctors speculated that they were in incredible pain and they should pull the plug?
Thats what I think anyway...
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I agree, but a coma would be preferable to being conscious, lucid and in agony as was my dad, but I could not do anything to help him. Even if I had, no doubt I'd be writing this from a prison cell now. Some sort of system whereby we can determine in advance what we want to happen in the event we are ever diagnosed with a terminal illness would go a long way to mitigating any confusion or uncertainty if the worse were to happen.