John Harris's Argument Against Euthanasia

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“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”- Milan Kundera. When a dog gets old and can't complete its everyday tasks without trouble the owners usually opt to have the dog put down, but in the case of humans euthanasia is forbidden and the best option for them is pain treatment which usually helps a little but does not make life enjoyable. By trying to prolong life the US is spending money, that could be applied to helping the younger generations get through college or pay for health insurance, on people that have little left to give. In order to help the younger generations in an ever-evolving financial crisis for them and the United States of America and work on prolonging their life to be as long as possible with no pain in the last days, it would best serve the US to ration treatments to the old. The baby boomer generation is rapidly hitting 65, the age in which a person is …show more content…

Keeping the old alive can just prolong their suffering A man named John Harris has an argument that saving a life is equal to prolonging a life and if that is the case the length of the human life should be prolonged as long as possible. (Than) To counter this argument is that saving a life is when someone is bleeding out and the bleeding is stopped. By saving this life the person goes on to usually live a normal life with maybe a scar or two from their ordeal but when prolonging a life an entirely different science is applied. The elderly are no guaranteed to live as well as before or that is guaranteed is that they will live. By saving a life all that is done is avoiding an unnecessary death but prolonging life is developing a science, which goes against the laws of nature, which is not necessarily bad but not an equal to saving a

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