Argumentative Essay On Euthanasia

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Merriam-Webster defines euthanasia as “the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy.” As a globally issues, euthanasia is always in controversial. Swanton,D argued that euthanasia protects the rights of individuals and the freedom of religious expression. Additionally, Sydeny,D outlines europe’s increasing acceptance of euthanasia which may mean that euthanasia is a preferable choice for people. Conversely, Fagerlin, A PhD from University of Michigan Medical School and Carl E. Schneider, JD from University of Michigan Law School suggest the great distortion of living wills if euthanasia is allowed. What is …show more content…

What is more, the famous writer Terry Pratchett states his desire to undergo euthanasia in his Richard Dissembly lecture, These evidence offer great support to the point for the reason that these famous people who are known by the public are responsible for the actions they done therefore they may consider the effect of saying such words. Therefore what they do have already undergone deep consideration which in further prove the strength of this point. Additionally, the writer may think more about the problem of euthanasia than normal people so as to the increasing strength of the argument. But this argument also has some weakness. The metal states of these people are unknown based on the fact that they are facing death, this may distort the evidence because they may hold different opinions before and change not until death. In all, the argument is still convincing for the reason that not only the two celebrities I have mentioned state or undergo euthanasia , there are a lot of other famous people do the same thing like Terri Schiavo，Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and King George …show more content…

On United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, It is suggested that “As Catholic leaders and moral teachers, we believe that life is the most basic gift of a loving God- a gift over which we have stewardship but not absolute dominion.” They also suggest that the God will always offer them with bearable experience and an end shows distrust and disrespect to the God. All these opinions points out the disagreement of Catholics in euthanasia. It is a fact that in some parts of the world the religion plays a big part in the society. Therefore allowing euthanasia is obviously a measure to destruct religious beliefs so that we should ban it for the religious side. Yet there is a significant and growing percentage of non-Christians and liberal Christians in North America who do not accept these arguments, the number of opponents compared to that of people holding the previous point is still

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