Is euthanasia acceptable?

If someone wants to die...they should be allowed to die...and they should not have to throw themselves under the wheels of a tractor trailer to do it.

If there are any gods around who would be offended...they should fuck off!

By the way...my answer to your last question is either "yes" or "no" depending upon what you were asking.

I cannot tell what you were asking from the words you typed.

lock up the thread, we got a winner

To make the guestion simpler. Is it acceptable for the family to take their loved on, who has been in coma past 20 years, to die in another hospital or do you think it is murder?

Unless they have the consent of the comatose party (say, they said they didn't want to live in a coma) or if the comatose party is not conscious and is unlikely to be conscious ever again, it's murder.

depends on how the coma was invoked.

I missed this topic the first time around.

Some of what the OP states above shows how problematic this issue is.
It depends of the perspective of the person considering pulling the plug.

I would hate to think that someone would end it for me thinking that if I woke up after a 20 year coma advanced age of 38 it would be too traumatic for me to continue.
When I was that age, I hardly considered my youth lost (still don't, 12 years beyond that.
I believe if my friends from when I was a senior in high school had moved somewhere, or had gotten married, I would be able to adjust to that


I remember though, when Franks mother in law was suffering terribly.

This is not a matter to be taken without careful consideration of what the person involved would have wanted, which is why it's so important to discuss this, when you are able, with those who could be making that decision for you one day.