Terminal Illness

Imagine a world without any medical remedies for any health related irritations, including anything from migraines or allergies, to any type of cancer or Parkinson's disease. The dreadful and constant excruciating pain, the countless days in bed anticipating the agony to finally disappear, the depressing thoughts of realizing death may be imminent. A world without proper medications is a world overcrowded with anguish and persistent frets. These proper medications often arise from experiments performed on living human beings with terminal illnesses. This provides experimenters with an unrivaled insight on the actuality of experiments in the human body. Medical research performed on terminally ill patients and their body parts is imperative

To begin with, performing medical research on living humans with terminal illnesses allows their organs to be left with the fundamental properties of what enables humans to be considered living. According to source B, Professor Markram states "...the deepest and most fundamental properties of living - thoughts, emotions, the mysterious feeling of self-awareness - arise from trillions of electrochemical interactions that take place in... [the brain that is] ...in our heads." These electrical impulses in the brain enable humans to sense "...the feeling of self, of pain, of love." (Source B) Therefore, experiments on a dead or imitation body is not fruitful in any way. The brain is the most demanding organ of the body, it controls every bodily function. If the brain is not in a working condition or living, the body will not be alerted of or

According to source C, "...it is the investigators, not the patient's [contributions], whose intellectual contributions lead to the creation of value." In which it does not matter if dead or alive bodies or organs are used. However, this is not entirely true. Often times, these researchers learn from performing experiments on living humans. The sole purpose behind an experiment is to verify or deny a hypothesis in a which a researcher expects to happen. Thus, research being performed on a living human gives an incomparable advantage than using dead bodies. This gives researchers an idea as to how patients feel during an experiment. The researchers might have an idea as to how patients may feel, but if it is only performed on a dead body, nobody will ever find out its true effects on the body. Thus, letting unknown flaws pass by testing. Performing experiments on dead bodies is like writing a paper without any evidence or support. It only provides the general idea of what may result. In which case these medical experiments on living humans are the foundation and support of what is known about human lifestyle today and in the