Argumentative Essay On Euthanasia

Combining with the theory of psychological hedonism, not granting euthanasia to those terminally ill patients would produce severe consequences. If “pleasure is the only thing that has value” (Lawhead 465), then the human pain and suffering has detriments and should be avoided as possible. For those terminally ill patients, the constant suffering is undoubted and undeniable. If we use Bentham’s method for calculating happiness to calculate the pain those patients encounter and experience, the result is astonishing. Let’s take this 14-year-old Chilean girl as an example, she is genetically inherited with cystic fibrosis which damages multiple organs of human bodies. Such ailment not only constantly produces the serious bodily pain,

When stating that our legislation permits people’s rights to live and survive in the way they want, it is contradictory to see that the same legislation suddenly deprives the right and freedom that humans end their lives in the way they want. The lives belong to individuals themselves, and it should be up to individuals themselves to decide how to terminate their lives, cause, after all, they are the ones who live their lives and feel their pains, and other people couldn’t experience the same. Government has neither the rights nor corresponding authority to interfere with individuals’ choice about their deaths. However, those statements and moral principles are fundamentally dependent on individuals who should contain a clear and rational mentality and cognition about themselves and their own health status. Thus, my approach, here, varies a bit because it is necessary to protect those terminally ill patients from the harm that’s been done and manipulated by the unwise, unreasonable emotions and sentiments. It is hard to argue and confirm that those patients are entirely clear about their own health because they have great possibility of being fooled and controlled by the emotional desire to escape the contemporary and unbearable pains. It is indeed patients’ rights to determine how they are going to terminate their lives, but it is also society or government’s rights and jobs to help those patients make wise and responsible decisions about death, because people could not regret nor revive after