Preface: I don't want to turn this into a debate about euthanasia.
As many of you know, I'm in chronic, significant-to-severe pain. This has given me a very personal perspective on euthanasia.
For now, I have quality of life. Things I enjoy doing, people I enjoy being with. Much of the time, this is enough to matter more than the pain. However, should my problems become more severe, or should I develop new, severe problems - I can easily foresee a time when it won't. Should that time come, I would bless the doctor who gave me a morphine overdose.
I say this, only because - well. A human feels this way. It may be projecting my own feelings onto animals, but I think the animals feel this way too. At least those who are capable of enough understanding.
It is kindness to take our suffering friends who cannot be cured (or whose cure would consist of excessive suffering that cannot be explained to them), and gently put them to sleep.
Mike (and the others who have mentioned having to do this): you did the right thing.
As many of you know, I'm in chronic, significant-to-severe pain. This has given me a very personal perspective on euthanasia.
For now, I have quality of life. Things I enjoy doing, people I enjoy being with. Much of the time, this is enough to matter more than the pain. However, should my problems become more severe, or should I develop new, severe problems - I can easily foresee a time when it won't. Should that time come, I would bless the doctor who gave me a morphine overdose.
I say this, only because - well. A human feels this way. It may be projecting my own feelings onto animals, but I think the animals feel this way too. At least those who are capable of enough understanding.
It is kindness to take our suffering friends who cannot be cured (or whose cure would consist of excessive suffering that cannot be explained to them), and gently put them to sleep.
Mike (and the others who have mentioned having to do this): you did the right thing.
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