Persuasive Essay On Euthanasia

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There has been criticism on having the right-to-die, but with this comes death with dignity because the person’s life comes to a straightforward death and what would be better than being able to die peacefully and painlessly. Many are against this movement because physicians should be helping keep people alive and not help them end it, but we do not experience is the great amount of pain someone with a terminal illness is experiencing. Even when treatment is available it may not benefit the patient and leave them in such state that they loose their abilities to perform daily tasks. In many cases having an option to die with dignity gives the person a peaceful sense of control because they have the power to end their suffering when they no longer …show more content…

At first it was a person’s state of being and later signified the action(s) performed to rush death. It has kept its original meaning of having a peaceful/painless exit from life but it also takes the meaning of the intentional foreshortening of a person’s life to spare them from any further suffering. Active euthanasia is an action that intended to end the life of a greatly suffering person and has no chance to recover. Passive euthanasia is the intentional withholding of treatment that might lengthen someone’s life. This comes in hand with the Right-to-Die (RTD) movement because in RTD the suffering person is allowed to decide when it is they want to end their pain. RTD is movement built on the principle of liberty, privacy, autonomy, and self-determination, but not all individuals are in a position to exercise a RTD decision. Making this kind of decision takes informed consent and competence; the doctrine of informed consent has made a difference because a person should be informed of the procedures, benefits, and risks in words that are understandable to them in order to be able to make such a extreme …show more content…

After her tumor came back more aggressively the doctors gave her six months to live. They prescribed her full brain radiation, but the side effects would take away the quality of life she knew. Maynard and her family decided that no treatment would save her life and the ones recommended would destroy the time she had left. She did not want her family to have to see her suffering so she researched death with dignity (DWD) or RTD and decided it was her best option. To begin with, California did not authorize DWD and Maynard moved to one of the fives states that allows it, Oregon. She met the criteria for Oregon’s DWD and had to establish residency in that state and after doing so she got the prescription for the medication. “I 've had the medication for weeks. I am not suicidal. If I were, I would have consumed that medication long ago. I do not want to die. But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms,” she said. Maynard knew she was dying and any treatment would not make her recover, so she wanted to be the one to decide when to die or at least have that option open to her. Maynard alleged, “I hope for the sake…that this option is available to you,” because having this option available to her gave her peace and control on when and where she would put an end to her

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