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In reply to the discussion: Could anyone here strap someone to a gurney and inject poison into their veins until they died? [View all]riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)I'm neutral on the death penalty. There are far, far too many evil people that do the worst stuff to others and its hard to justify extending their life. The victim's family and loved ones should be the ones to decide if/when the perp is declared guilty whether that murderous crime justifies killing that perp in order to satisfy THEIR sense of justice. If the victim's family and loved ones decide the perpetrator must die then they must be the ones to administer that death. They get to depress the plunger and watch that person die.
I'd guess that if the DP were that personal, there'd be a whole different perspective on it.
I can't say if I could or could not do it. It would depend on what the circumstances were. Once you've made life and death decisions on living things like I do daily with my business, once you've stood and assisted in dealing death to a beloved pet, knowing it was the right thing to do, the line gets blurry.
If you are talking about assisted suicide, I'm absolutely sure I could do this thing for a loved one. If I can do it with a beloved pet, I'm absolutely sure I could do it for a living soul who asked for it and whom I trusted was in their sane mind.