Should a 17 year old be blocked from suicide?

[Bob]

In this matter, this is over a 17 year old that has cancer. She wants to die.

https://www.yahoo.com/health/should-...518648817.html

Should A 17-Year-Old Be Allowed To Choose Death?


Jennifer Gerson UffalussyJanuary 8, 2015







Cassandra C., pictured here with her mother Jackie Fortin, is being forced by the state of Connecticut to undergo chemo against her will. But the odds are pretty high that it would save her life. (Photo: CBSTV)
Does a 17-year-old have the right to not only make choices about her own medical treatment, but to do so in a way almost guaranteed to end in death?
This is the question that was just decided in Connecticut, where the state has taken custody of a 17-year old resident who is refusing chemotherapy treatment for herHodgkin lymphoma.

[Redrose]

I'm not convinced she wants to die, but she doesn't want them poisoning her body with chemicals. I agree.

I've known too many people with cancer that had their bodies bombarded with chemo and radiation, suffer terribly from it and still die. Some even receied the wrong chemo $#@!tail, which hurt more than helped.

Let her make her own choice for her body.

[nic34]

Her choice.

[Common Sense]

That's a tough one...she's not an adult.

[Peter1469]

I vote none of the above.

Chemo is a killer by itself. Homeopathic treatment may help.

[Ravens Fan]

I'm not convinced she wants to die, but she doesn't want them poisoning her body with chemicals. I agree.

I've known too many people with cancer that had their bodies bombarded with chemo and radiation, suffer terribly from it and still die. Some even receied the wrong chemo $#@!tail, which hurt more than helped.

Let her make her own choice for her body.

^^^ exactly. It's her body, her life, her choice.

[PolWatch]

This is something that is a private, personal decision. The girl and her family should make that choice.

[The Xl]

She's old enough to make that choice. She's biologically no different than an 18 year old, to deny her that right because of some arbitrary number is ridiculous

[sachem]

I have a tough time with this one. I just don't know. I will go with no for now.

[Redrose]

My 42 year old Godchild has stage 4 breast cancer. Two years ago they aggressively treated her, radical mastectomy two dozen lymphnodes removed, chemo, chest expander. She looked awful, felt awful. Cancer spread. More chemo, more pain. Cancer spread, now radiation, 100% bedridden, excruciating pain. Prognosis: 6 months maybe. She doesn't look anything like her normal self and she knows it, and it hurts.

Maybe she would have been better off doing nothing, having her last years un-mutilated, pain free and die on her terms.

I'm convinced we're guinea pigs for some of these treatments.