If he or she chooses to be euthanized after suffering from a terminal illness, then it is the medical staff’s responsibility to meet the patient’s request. The support of euthanasia is on the rise for doctors now days (Newfield). Medical staff believes it is against the Hippocratic Oath of killing patients, but the oath also states to do no harm to the patient which they are doing by allowing their illness to take over them (“Euthanasia”). Money spent on medication and attentive care for these terminally ill patients could be saved for patients who have a good chance at life or organs could be taken from one who does not wish to live and given to someone who does (Messerli). Imagine a relative suffering from a form of cancer and has a 70% chance of beating it and/or having a great chance of a normal, healthy life again.
In my o... ... middle of paper ... ...illness to die because of the emotional burden that succeeds death. By ending the life of the ill, you can no longer enjoy and spend time with the said loved one before their due time quickly approaches. The bottom line for these believers is that ending a life is playing the God role and even those who don’t believe in God believe nature must take its course. In the end, death is a concrete option for those who are suffering and do not see living life as an option any longer. Many see euthanasia as inhumane and religiously erroneous, but we must view this decision from the eyes of the suffering patient.
So have them to choose between life and death, is an option and a decision they finally make. However, God will have mercy on those who are ill and suffering from dangerous disease. Finally, a last opinion held by those who disagree is that they’re completely against assisted suicide and euthanasia because there’re better way to address the needs of people with serious illnesses. Is to surround patients with love, support, and companionship those will heal the patients. Leaving their loved ones will be left alone and blame them selves of what happen to the patients.
Those who have a terminal illness and are in excruciation pain should have the right to choose to end their lives and the physicians who help them should not be prosecuted. Especially, since people have the right to refuse life-saving treatments, they should also have the freedom to choose when to end their lives. But, someone who is for example, terminally ill, in a hospital setting or even disabled may not be to use this option, either because of mental or physical restrictions. In effect, they are being discriminated against because of their disability. They should be allowed to have the same access of suicide as to people who are not terminally ill have.
Terminally ill patients no longer wish to have their lives artificially prolonged by expensive, painful, or debilitating treatments and would rather die quietly. The patients do not wish to prolong their life and they may not wish to commit suicide themselves or worse, are physically incapable of doing so. People have the right to their own destiny and living in the U.S we have acquired freedom. The patients Right to Self Determination Act gives the patient the power to decide how, when and why they choose to die. In "Editorial Exchange: Death with Dignity: Reopen Assisted-Suicide Debate."
Legalizing euthanasia would spare families the agony of watching a loved one pass away in less than a dignified manner. Terminally ill people do not want to burden their families with the financial burden that is left when one departs this life, euthanasia could lessen that burden. Euthanasia would provide for a more dignified way to end one’s life when faced with the prospect of prolonged pain and suffering. People should have the right to decide when and how they are going to die, and everyone should have the right to make this decision based on their own personal morals and beliefs. By enacting laws and regulations a person’s rights
I disagree with James Rachels essay, because I think that it is kind of like a cruel and unusual punishment to withdraw treatments from a patient. I believe that if a patient is ready to die that their treatment should not be withheld, the doctor's should either keep giving the patient treatments, or take other measures to end the patients life.
Len Doyal argues how euthanasia can be legal because physicians choose not to help their patients, but they can take their lives and experiment with it (65). When their decisions to try to benefit the patient’s life in the future go wrong, they only made them hurt more instead of helping them hurt less. Some say it is a crime, others say they are doing right. Doctors have a duty to help patients out as much as they can. People have the right to die and if they make the final decision that they do want to die, doctors should understand the patients decision and assist the needs and wants, concluding that euthanasia and physician assisted suicide should become legal in various areas of the world.
It is my belief that assisted suicide and euthanasia (both passive and active) is morally ok. My main reason for thinking so stems from the idea that people should be allowed to make choices about their own life when it doesn’t affect anyone else. To me, dying is a very personal, one-sided ordeal that doesn’t involve other people as much as they think it does. People like to make themselves apart of other people’s deaths and to me that seems very selfish. Sure you have to deal with losing this person, but people become so focused on what they are losing and completely ignore the fact that the person dying is dealing with what is considered the biggest mystery on Earth. When someone decides that their life is no longer worth living, we shouldn’t come at them with guilt and anger.
They think that they have nothing else to live for, but it is just a stage that they are going through. There are certain factors that are dangerous and lead people to end their lives. There are people that want euthanasia to be legalized but they do not understand the consequences that come with that legalization. Once euthanasia is legalized vulnerable patients could be talked into suicide and doctors could take that decision for them. Euthanasia should not be an easy way out to get rid of a patient’s pain.