Euthanasia Must Not Be Legalized

Euthanasia is Greek for "easy or happy death" and implies measures deliberately taken by a physician to curtail pain and suffering. This concept has been enlarged to include such action in incurable diseases, especially those in which the patient must endure torment and extreme pain and/or is terminally ill ("Euthanasia"). Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for their alleged benefit. If the death is not intended, it is not an act of euthanasia, so the key word is "intentional." Assisted suicide is when a person provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take their own life.

Pediatric Euthanasia in Belgium. Retrieved from JAMA: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1863566&resultClick=24 Clarridge, B.R ; Daniels, E.R ;Emanuel, E.J ; Fairclough, D.L . (1996, June 29). Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: attitudes and experiences of oncology patients, oncologists, and the public. Retrieved from The Lancet: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(96)91621-9/abstract Euthanasia and assisted suicide laws around the world.

These include: passive euthanasia, active euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, and involuntary euthanasia. Passive euthanasia is the hastening of the death of a person by altering some form of support and letting nature take its course. Overdose of morphine is the most common form of passive euthanasia. Active euthanasia involves causing the death of a person through a direct action, in response to a request from that person. Physician assisted suicide occurs when a physician supplies information and/or the means of committing suicide to a person, so that they can easily terminate their own life.

In some cases, it includes a lethal injection, which is an act of killing someone and this is referred to as “active euthanasia,” which is an act of... ... middle of paper ... ...ncurable diseases or accidents like Dax Cowart where the person’s life after would never be the same or could never be what the individual imagined their life to be, patients should have the option to die a painless way. . The United States of America is becoming more accepting of this alternative to painful treatments that patients in this state would receive. With the removal of “The Appropriate Ends” area from the Hippocratic oath, it is clear that the U.S. is making a big push toward legalizing euthanasia. Legalizing euthanasia will open another opportunity for suffering patients, because regardless of whether or not euthanasia is an option, suicidal patients will find a way to die and many times this is more brutal and painful than euthanasia.

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For the rest of the paper, I will be talking about PAS from a pro-PAS opinion while questioning those who are against it and their arguments for it. First, euthanasia is the act of ending someone’s life to relieve his or her suffering. It can be active or passive, where active is that a person is actively terminating someone’s life and passive is an act of omitting a procedure or treatment that will lead to the person’s death (Levy, Azar, Huberfeld, Siegel & Strous, 2013). Euthanasia can also either be voluntary, where a patient requests someone to end their life, or involuntary where the patient’s healthcare provider or family members make the decision without a patient’s request because the patient may not have the capacity to request it. PAS is a subset of euthanasia that occurs when a doctor of a patient engages in an activity, which directly or indirectly leads to their death (Levy et al., 2013).

Euthanasia is defined by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary 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.” There are several different types of euthanasia in existence today. Active euthanasia is specifically causing a person to die by certain means, such as a drug injection of a lethal dose. Passive euthanasia is intentionally letting a person die by withholding means of life support, such as a feeding tube or ventilator. Voluntary euthanasia means that the person consented to it, and involuntary euthanasia means that the person did not give consent. When a person performs euthanasia on himself, it is called self-administered euthanasia.

Passive euthanasia: acceleration of death by the removal of life support B. Active euthanasia: a doctor directly assists in the death of a person C.     Physician Assisted Suicide: physician supplies the resources for committing suicide II. An example of euthanasia A. Article, “It’s Over Debbie” III. Legalization of euthanasia A.     Euthanasia is legal in Japan, the Netherlands, and Oregon B.

A bill was shown to the state, and if the bill was to pass, a physician in the U.S. would have the right to suggest a “painless death to any... ... middle of paper ... ...ould ultimately be up to the patient to decide the value of life and death for him/her. On the other hand, those who oppose euthanasia say that if euthanasia was legalized, the right to die would be abused and ultimately changed into a “right to kill”. The main complication when euthanasia is being considered is that sometimes it is not clear if a terminally ill patient really wants to die. Some argue that it is unbearable for the patients to know that they are on their deathbed, leading to a pro-euthanasia statement by Dr. Maisie M, that “maintaining life support systems against the patient's wish is considered unethical by law as well as medical philosophy. If the patient has the right to discontinue treatment why would he not have the right to shorten his lifetime to escape the intolerable anguish?

Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. Euthanasia can either take the form of passive or active assisted-suicide. Euthanasia is a hotly debated topic international that receives a lot of media attention when a story breaks about a personal story of someone suffering from an incurable and painful disease asks to be euthanized. Euthanasia can either take a passive or active form in that passive euthanasia is the act in which a life-support system or medication is withheld so the patient can die by natural means. This also means an ordinary human right such as nutrition or hydration cannot be with held to induce death.