Anyone who watches a loved one being eaten alive by cancer, as I did with my beloved Hubby, will welcome this . By the time he died he'd shrunk three inches in a year. They stopped weighing him when he went below 7 stone. He was doubly incontinent, couldn't walk, couldn't talk, couldn't eat and had gone blind.
A terrible situation ... for both the dying person and those left with the awful memories. ❤️
I’m a little bit surprised to see such consensus among the posters. I thought it was more of a divisive subject.
I totally agree with the previous posts - it’s ridiculous that we are ok with so much of human suffering yet we would never put a pet through the same.
There should be a rule of thumb, called a puppy rule - if you wouldn’t do it to a puppy, then don’t do it to a fellow human being!
Would you pierce a puppy’s ears? No? Then why would you do it to a child?
Would you cut a male puppy’s genitalia for no medical reason? No? Then why would you do it to a baby boy?
Would you be fine watching someone denying puppies food and water and starving them to death? No? Then why are we allowing it to happen to children of Gaza? Not to mention that most of the western governments can’t even agree if it is acceptable to starve children to death or not. There’d be no such dilemma if we were talking about puppies.
Or take any of the major world religions and their concept of hell - the never ending suffering, which awaits anyone who refuses to believe in something they have absolutely no proof of. If the same religions said they would subject puppies to never ending suffering, would we be just as quick to accept it? Or would we say no puppy deserves such cruelty and any religion / ideology that teaches that simply cannot be true? Why don’t we feel the same level of compassion towards our fellow human beings??
Humans just seem to be perpetually cruel towards their own kind.
There should be a rule of thumb, called a puppy rule - if you wouldn’t do it to a puppy, then don’t do it to a fellow human being!
There’d be no such dilemma if we were talking about puppies.
Puppy mutilation has been a thing for a very long time and continues to happen. I'm not going to get things off track but if you look at the state and popularity of unhealthy, inbred dogs these days you can't really suggest that humanity has any sense when it comes to animal welfare.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Since we are happy to castrate male sheep,cattle,horses etc, in order to prevent them from getting bolshie and/or from breeding, it would seem to only be logical that we bestow the same honour on some of the human race.
I heard on QI( so it must be true) recently that all Sphinx cats can be traced back to a pair of kittens from the same litter born in Texas in 1972. Inbred genetic mutants. Maybe the puppy rule isn't used for kittens?
It's not quite the same as legalising assisted dying but before Harold Shipman, patients were "helped" on their way when they were in immense pain or on deaths door. I think this is probably true for all of history but the period we are in now.
It's my belief that if this didn't affect politics, that it would already be in place.
It seems really odd to me some people think because they don't want to do something (have an abortion, get assistance dying, and so in), no one else should be allowed to.
I understand the "slippery slope" argument, but I think there can be sufficient safeguards built in to ensure no one is persuaded down a route they do not want.
I suspect most people are not frightened of being dead. I won't be here in 2060, but that doesn't worry me any more than the fact I wasn't here in 1860, or 1760. The fear is to do with the "how" of the end, not the fact that it will arrive.
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Maybe the puppy rule isn't used for kittens?
It's my belief that if this didn't affect politics, that it would already be in place.
"It's god's will"