The Euthanasia Debate – Singer v Fisher – Should Voluntary Euthanasia be Legalised?

I live in Oregon. I have a disease that is not only INCREDIBLY painful, but is also going to cause me to lose my mind. The scary part for me isn't the pain, or the dementia. It's that the pain is gong to continue to get worse, and at some point I won't be able to ask for help or communicate with my family what is wrong. This doesn't mean I won't know what's going on. I'll be trapped in a failing body.

It's interesting how one's religious leanings in large part informs how one feels about this.

Great debate. The topic is now coming up in New Zealand so I thought I'd hear differing thoughts on the subject.

1:23:50 did she just show up to ask that one dumb question or was she present during the whole debate? was she even aware of what the topic of the debate was? lel

My brother is facing a trial none of us can share, he has to be on dialysis since his kidneys are shot, and now has a brain tumor causing behavioral and memory changes, to the point he cant do many things independently anymore. Today he wanted to die, the strange thing is, Im not entirely against his wish to die, I keep thinking, if it were me wouldnt I want this too? then I think of all the reasons why I would support this. 1. I wouldnt want to be a burden 2. I would want to make that decision for myself not let a disease decide even though that disease impacted my decision. 3. It might not be a terminal illness, but the impact on my life is such, that it is unbearable for me, leading to a tortured existence that I would not want to endure for a moment longer, even being simply tired, weary of continuing with that condition is enough incentive for me to opt out. 4. If I make my resolutions as a planned commitment to die would allow, I could say goodbye without regret, and ease any guilt or blame, mitigate the grief that follows, and soften the burden my death would bring others by spending what time I had as effectively focused on what was important left to share. The burden is a huge point for me, financially it costs so much to treat the illness or bury someone, the stress of planning a funeral and so on, I wouldnt want that for my family to go through, I have allowed my sister to have access to my bank account in case something happened to me.

Ay Robert Haddad is here!

the audience's face at 14:20 LOL!! that's also how my faced looked.

This guy is telling to the most vulneable people in society that they care about what happens to them. Maybe if your church pressure the Goverment to spend more money on them and less money on wars...

Peter Singer made logical, coherent arguments. The Bishop made appeals to emotion. Peter Singer clearly won this debate.

Dude at the beginning can't pick an accent, and he can't shut up.

OF COURSE it should be legal! this debate is a waste of singers time

I can destroy this whole thing with one question: Whose morals? If that doesn't work, there are multiple logical fallacies. Namely, slippery slope and argumentum ad populum. Saving a drowning victim? Really?