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To kill or not to kill, that is the debate

Controversial professor, Sean Davidson is going to campaign for South African lawmakers to change their view on euthanasia.

Davidson is back in South Africa, after serving five months house arrest in New Zealand for helping his mother commit suicide. Not a nice subject to write a column about I know, but it's something worth having a chat over don't you think?

As a Christian, my faith does not allow suicide talk of any kind, assisted or not. However, how many times have we watched a medically-grounded movie or perhaps Greys Anatomy and said that if ever we were "vegetables", we'd want our family to rather pull the plug? In Davidson's case, his administered a lethal dose of morphine to his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. ,His mother, Dr Patricia Ferguson, asked him to help her die.

Ferguson was a general practitioner and psychiatrist. She'd tried to starve herself, in an attempt to end her life but failed. In October 2006, Davidson gave his mother the deathly dose and she passed away. As soon as it became public, he was arrested and detained in NZ.
Can you image Dr Ferguson…?

Having a perfectly super functioning brain. Studying all those years to be a doctor, to help other people during their time of illness and now, having life throw her this sort of curve ball. Going from being able to do everything for herself and now lying in a bed all day, unable to move from all the pain…

How does one deal with that? For the sake of hate mail and nasty phone calls from readers who will probably judge before they've read (like previous columns), I won't share my personal thoughts.

Instead, I would like to hear your ideas on euthanasia? If you had a family member who was unable to breathe on their own, how would you handle it? Or would you want your family to "pull the plug" if you were a "vegetable" in hospital. Add your comments below.