[Blzbba]

So what's the solution here? To force the parents to quickly exhaust their life savings paying for a life that will be lived in pain and suffering and possibly on life support and constant medication? Or to hand the children over to the gov't and let the Nanny State raise them?

I know that I wouldn't want my tax dollars to go towards such health care expenses.

I don't know the answer but I know not to judge until I've walked a mile in one of those parents' shoes.

[Pyro7480]

If you don't see the similarities to Nazi Germany, then you're blind.

[stm]

First it starts with terminally ill children, then it moves to terminally ill adults. What's next, children born with with Down's Syndrome or birth defects?

This is Nazi Germany relived. This has to be stopped now.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

I don't know the answer but I know not to judge until I've walked a mile in one of those parents' shoes.

I hear you. I also hear the ones wary of the slippery slope. I know that if I were terminally ill, and there was no way to relieve my pain, I do not want to linger nor do I want someone forcing me to.

[Rutles4Ever]

"I don't know the answer but I know not to judge until I've walked a mile in one of those parents' shoes."

As far as I know, I haven't walked in anyone's shoes but my own. Does that make it impossible for me to decide right from wrong?

God, your post sounds so... relativist.

[reaganaut]

See my post #118.

Don't assume all of these children would die. I didn't. And my mother gladly spent her life savings and would have done it even if I only lived a few weeks.

Are you a parent?

[frgoff]

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I know that I wouldn't want my tax dollars to go towards such health care expenses.
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There are some things more important than money.

[Sally II]

My thoughts, too. I understand the concerns associated with euthenasia. I don't think we should make it legal, because the possible and inevitable abuses would present a whole new horrible set of problems. But if I knew that those administering euthenasia all had the strictest standards --only when death was inevitable and the pain severe-- a mercy killing would be the most humane. Sometimes I think that pets are treated better when they are at death's door and in extreme pain, because they can be quickly and humanely put down. ---Then again, a lot of people have their pets euthenized for stupid, non-pain reasons. And unfortunately the same will happen to humans if euthenasia were legalized.

There just aren't any easy answers. It may be better to let a thousand dying people suffer excruciating pain to the natural end than to risk having the lives of 10 curable people ended unnecessarily.

[Conservative til I die]

You're a monster.