Whose Life Is It Anyway?

I do not agree with the concept of death that is in this case being considered by Ken Harrison. Ken Harrison himself is young and capable of doing things that would benefit his own life. Death is not a perfect decision to be made by any clear and rational mind.
"Although Ken Harrison has a strong spririt and is basically good-natured, he cannot accept the fate of never being able to perform his craft again and seeks to be set free and allowed to die."
Ken Harrison is apparently in a depressing state when he will have to accept the life as a quadriplegic. However, there are still hope for a quad to contribute into the society as a legitimate citizen.

Whose Life is It Anyway? Dai Champion

The Quote: "This thought provoking and philosophically painful. Most people have an opinion on euthanasia and how they would react should they end up helplessly crippled and so does Ken Harrison in this movie. But do we really mean what we say? What is really special about this movie is that it does not take a stand at the end. It lets us wonder. Does he actually change his mind as the good doctor suggests he might?"

If I were crippled and the doctor suggests that I might recover. I'd still go on about life and fight death until death arrives. But being lied to by a professional doctor will hurt when a quadriplegic finds out the truth, she/he might try to resist any medical treatment and are desperately wanted to be euthanised. Like how Mr. Ken Harrison reacted to the situation, he started swearing and becoming a maniac. Firstly he was being treated unfairly (not as important) from the doctors. They are using thousands of dollars on him PER WEEK. It is an excess amount of money a week MUCH more than anyone's salary per month (Except for maybe some Bureau Workers).

Whose Life Is It anyway?

Whose Life Is It Anyway? is an excellent moving film with a first rate performance by Richard Dreyfuss. It's very thought provoking about a person having the right to die. Personally I think his character does make the right choice. Life in a hospital as a vegetable is not a life. However the one thing that's always bothered me is how short the trial is. In similar real life cases, a trial about the issue of right to die would take much more than that one short session. It would probably take months in fact.

I agree with this person. Harrison made a right choice. He must die. In the hospital, he is having a very hard time and people don't consider him like normal human.
Also, to make him alive, thousands of dollars are used per week. But in some places like Africa, one person can save one's life with less than a dollar. So Harrison's survival is making hundreds of people in Africa to die. Also he has no hope of recovering to normal state. Therefore he is just a waste of money. Also, he wants to suicide. Even a person with normal mind sometimes wants to suicide. Mental disease is not the only thing that makes people to suicide.

Whose life is it anyway?

I don't agree with the main character. I think he should move on living. He can still see, hear, talk to other people and the most important is that he still have a sound mind. He isn't suffering from endless, unbearable pain. Therefore, in my opinion, the problem he has now is the hospital. They treat him like he's in vegetable state and force him to do want he doesn't want. Instead of trying to die, he should find a better place to live.

Whose life is this anyway?

"Whose Life Is It Anyway? is an excellent moving film with a first rate performance by Richard Dreyfuss. It's very thought provoking about a person having the right to die. Personally I think his character does make the right choice. Life in a hospital as a vegetable is not a life. However the one thing that's always bothered me is how short the trial is. In similar real life cases, a trial about the issue of right to die would take much more than that one short session. It would probably take months in fact."

I don't necessarily agree with this person's view. I think he is just going through a depressing state when recognized that he would not be able to ever to a human actions again. As said throughout the movie and was portrayed perfectly by Richard Dreyfuss, Harrision was an intelligent man and we should just give him time to pass through this state. As demonstrated throughout the film, he was introduced to various technologies and always refused to eventually use any of it. He just needs to calm down cause in fact, he has so much more to offer to the world, he's not just a sculpture, he is an experienced man and can use his time sitting on his bed giving ideas and contribution to the world. Rather than just sitting there and begging to die.

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Homework on "Whose life is it anyway?"

"Ken Harrison (Richard Dreyfuss) is an artist... His fingers make things of beauty...

When he lived through a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down, we understood why he wanted to be left alone to die...

Ken moved from a world of life and creation, to an empty world where he can't move even a single finger...

Lying under the white sheets of the hospital bed, he is subjected to stress under the shock of his another reality... The artist has gone... The creator of an art expressed in all its different dimensions, round in relief, imagery, symbolism, all vanished in seconds...

But his human spirit remains alive under the severity, the compulsion, the threats of his new reality...

Ken was a cunning sculptor, skillful, ingenious in the use of his mind and hands... He is now charming, capable to seduce the whole nursing staff by pillow talk...

The movie deals with many hypothesis about the right to die...

Does a patient have the right to choose to die? Does he have the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment, even if that means certain immediate or accelerated death?"

Yes, I think he has the right to die. He desperately wanted to die because he was depressed, he couldn't do all the things he used to, like create a sculptor. Why do he have to keep on living, when he feels that his life was not valuable anymore?

One Thing I didn't Believe

'Whose Life Is It Anyway? is an excellent moving film with a first rate performance by Richard Dreyfuss. It's very thought provoking about a person having the right to die. Personally I think his character does make the right choice. Life in a hospital as a vegetable is not a life. However the one thing that's always bothered me is how short the trial is. In similar real life cases, a trial about the issue of right to die would take much more than that one short session. It would probably take months in fact.'

He can do most things that a normal person can so... hmm.
ps. doesn't he look a bit like mr adrian? (:

I completely agree with Harrison on his views

I completely agree with Harrison on his views. I don't think that his thinking is altered by being a quadriplegic. I even think he should die because that would release his burden. I mean, euthanasia's a RIGHT isn't it? We shouldn't let a person living a life with no particular direction or goal when he/she doesn't want to live anymore.

Homework on Who's life is it?

"Agreed. This movie aired on HBO a few times in the early '80's and that was it as far as I can rememember. It hasn't shown up on any network or cable channels either. Funny how some films get shown to death (ex: AMC's eternal marathons of the 007 movies.) And then there are some, like this, that just seem to fall off the face of the earth. Maybe there are legal reasons why it hasn't been released." Why would the government not allowe it to be on DVD maybe because the government wanted to shows the peoples right to die?

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