Animal people consider injections much more humane than letting the animal wilt away over time. And for some centuries, indeed, shooting a horse was more humane than just letting him gradually die.
Yes, by God, I would prefer it that way, if I HAD to choose how to execute an innocent person.
But the real choice was between letting her die (by neglecting her, no less) and letting her be cared for by her family.
In which the latter is ALWAYS my choice.
The very next step by the euthanasia society. Watch for promotion of a better death "after death has been chosen".
Of course, so many just wish the right to get rid of the responsibility of ill ones of their family and it is so much easier if they can claim that the person "said" they did not wish to live like ........
Because, many times that ill one might change their minds and they would have to care for them wouldn't they? So much nicer to believe that they are already dead and their soul gone so that the killing can take place. The assets saved from medical care and given to them (the spoiled selfish ghouls that they are).
Of course, they have deprived the ill one of their consitutional rights - but what the heck - they are dead and just don't know it.(/sarcasm, of course. I believe in the sanctity of life, that God chooses our time of departure and that man is not to be trusted with the ability to kill others freely as man is full of greed, corruption, and selfishness as well as the good traits that many possess.)
I would never give the state/government the power of determining when man is no longer man but dead and therefore initiating a death to a non-dying person. It is not right and oversteps the bounds of government that protects the rights of ALL for LIFE, LIBERTY.