Should death be a choice? Google defines Euthanasia as “The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.” Euthanasia is illegal in most places of the world. It is a topic a lot of people disagree on, but I personally believe it should be legalized all over the world. I believe people have the right to decide if they want to live or have someone help end their sufferings. We as humans or any living organisms in fact, do not have the choice of being born, so having the right to die should be a right. Pain and suffering is something nobody should go through, but it is inevitable just like death. Intolerable hurting is horrible and if you were going through it, wouldn’t you want it to end? I completely comprehend the fact that having a professional help end your life is a crazy idea, family and relatives’ feelings are definitely taken into consideration without any doubts, but when it comes down to it who is …show more content…
Science proved it long ago with cells dying, organs giving out, brain activity stopping and/or having your heart give out. We are born and therefore we don’t get to live forever so we die or pass away. With that, we die either way so if a person or animal is suffering with an intolerable pain they shouldn’t be restricted from having that end and having them move on to the next stage in life that we’re all intended in having. Death cannot be avoided, and if a human wants to die they’ll make it happen. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a loved one passed on professionally and without pain rather than have them commit suicide due to not being able to handle the pain anymore. Life does not guarantee happiness, pain, love, or any emotions of any sort, but life does guarantee death. People should have the right to be able to pass away, end their sufferings, move on and not have to deal with the pain anymore. Which is why I believe Euthanasia should be legalized in the
Plus there are people that have a terminal illness that does not want to suffer eve though they know they will die a painful and agonizing death. Plus people will commit suicide anyway and they will suffer instead of having loved ones around and not dying in pain
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Is it right to be able to chose to end one’s life? So many questions keep coming up. There are many different views on the euthanasia debate and then there is no clear line on where the difference between murder and mercy.
Life is a delicate subject to address, especially when it comes to the end thereof. Oftentimes, talking about death is a sensitive and therefore controversial subject. In America, citizens are allowed to hold and express their personal ideologies and beliefs, which has created a lot of discussion about whether or not it should be legal for doctors to help terminally ill patients peacefully end their lives. This is commonly referred to as Aid-In-Dying. The human experience is filled with many difficulties and sufferings. In the dreadful circumstance that someone is diagnosed as terminally ill, why would anyone want him or her to continue to suffer? When a human being is dying and experiencing excruciating pain, they absolutely should have
The human body can only tolerate so much pain before it begins to shut down slowly. The elimination of suffering can allow the patient to go to Heaven peacefully instead of having a bad death that family members have to watch. Two examples of dealing of suffering is Brittney Maynard and Craig Schonegevel. Both patients had long-term illnesses and were entering the final stages. (Listverse) Brittney wanted to end her life with dignity, so she moved to Oregon, where it was legal, and died with her dignity using euthanasia to help her go peacefully. (Listverse) Craig, on the other hand, applied for euthanasia and was denied. He decided to take 12 sleeping pills and suffocate himself with plastic bags. He wanted to die listening to his favorite jams while his parents held his hands, but instead died harshly. (Listverse) He did not get the chance to die with dignity like Brittney did. Doctors have reviewed both cases and do not want patients to go to the extreme measures like suicide to end their pain. Euthanasia gives patients the opportunity to pass away in a moral and just way while taking away all the pain and
Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal? This is a truly controversial topic. Many see euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide as a way to end the pain and suffering of an ill individual. However, there are others who are against the subject due to various reasons. Some people believe that this is a humane approach and that it should be legalized. In contrast, others believe that it can create an issue with further medical researches and the Hippocratic Oath.
Most people have seen at least one person in their life suffering in unbearable pain up to their death, and it’s never something people find joy in. There is nothing pleasing about being in pain or watching someone be in pain. For those people whose pain does not respond to methods of modern medicine, there should be the option of physician-assisted suicide. “Physician-assisted suicide refers to the practice of a physician prescribing or regulating, upon a patient’s informed request, a lethal dose of medication for the purpose of ending that patient’s life” (Lerner). The lethal drugs that are given to the patient by the doctor are administered by the patient themself, not by the doctor, so
Is euthanasia murder or is it actually saving someone from extra pain and suffering? This is just one of the questions that are causing so much debate in our society today. Should euthanasia be illegal?
Life at one point has to end, and in circumstances maybe a little early. When you see life, you see a person who is happy with problems no bigger than bills and most of all healthy with a whole long life to live, but when you are terminally ill it may be a completely different point of view. When you are sick, you do not enjoy life, but wish for it to end; Why? You say, well you are not living your life when you are in pain. The pain is all you feel and it is way more sad when you know it is not going to end. Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide have given patients an opportunity to decide how they want to die and even an opportunity on how they want to be remembered. For this patients, there point of view is not of them quitting, it is of them feeling suffering and not wanting their children to remember the bad times instead of the good times when the patient was healthy. Physicians should help terminally ill patients die in peace if they decide to because they have the right to determine how to live and die and how they want to safeguard income and expenses.
Death is not a topic that many people are comfortable with, some people believe it is outrageous for others to play God and decide when to end their lives. While this is true for people with normal pains, there are those who feel they have the right to choose their own fate because they cannot bear their pain and suffering anymore. These are people that are terminally ill, people who were diagnosed with a deadly disease without a cure and feel that death is the only way to relieve that pain. These people has gone through many treatments that are slowly becoming less and less effective. Even though the treatment isn’t working, the patients still have to live through the pain from the treatments. Terminally ill
It should be legal for patients suffering painful, incurable diseases to choose to have a physician assisted death. People die every day in the United States of long term illness, often while suffering massive amounts of pain and with extended hospital stays. According to the American Cancer Society in 2015 approximately sixteen hundred people died every day from cancer. Of those sixteen hundred people dying from cancer eighty percent died in the hospital, which can cost up to $10,000.00 to maintain a person in the Intensive Care Unit. Everyone may not opt to have a physician assisted death, but the choice should be there. Basic human rights are reason enough to legalize physician assisted death, however, by far not the only reason.
According to the Fourteenth Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, the State cannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Indeed, a terminally ill patient has the Constitutional right to decide whether right or not to end his or her life. “Supporters of legislation legalizing assisted suicide claim that all persons have a moral right to choose freely what they will do with their lives as long as they inflict no harm on others. This right of free choice includes the right to end one 's life when we choose” (A Right or a Wrong?). People have the right to die with dignity and in a humane way. If they feel like they have to do a certain thing, it is
Why not allow them to do it in a safe environment. Family would get to say good-bye and be there to comfort the patient as they passed away. Without access to other options, the patient might end up in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor, waiting to be found by a member of their family. A teenaged girl might find her mom in the garage, dead in the front seat of her running car. When these suffering people take death into their own hands, it’s the family and friends left behind who then
Most people do not like to talk or even think about death; much less the topic of ending one’s own life. However, for some, death is a desired alternative to living in agony. Euthanasia has been a topic of debate since antiquity, and both sides stand firm on their beliefs. The right to choose death is illegal in most countries. I believe in people’s freedom to do what they please with their own bodies. The basic right of liberty is what America was founded on. Euthanasia should be a legal option.
If the option of euthanasia were available the sufferer could say their final goodbyes, savor precious moments with the ones they love, then, with the help of their physician, slip slowly into a peaceful sleep from which they would never awake. Ending the life of the patient would not only ensure that their suffering would finally be over, but it would give the family the peace of knowing that their loved one ended their life in a state of comfort. I am not saying that we should encourage someone to give up the fight of their life. Euthanasia is not to be forced onto someone. Euthanasia is an option to be given to those who have no other choice and are in desperate search of a solution to their suffering. Euthanasia is something to be turned to when the quality of life is so poor that the patient isn’t living, they are merely existing.