Argumentative Essay Pro Euthanasia

Death is not a concept that is well grasped or understood but we all know the cycle of life, we live and we die. We do not know how and we do not know when, our fate is laid out for us, we just learn to accept it because it is just how it goes. Some are lucky enough to live a healthy life with few to none complications and some find themselves fighting for their lives because of a terminating illness or severely injured from any type of accident. In an act of pain, torture, agony and knowing there is no hope for survival why can it not be you that has the upper hand in deciding when it is time to say goodbye.
Assisted suicide, passive and active euthanasia are illegal in most countries and states and has been a controversy for decades. There are three forms of euthanasia, active, passive and assisted suicide, they all have the same outcome, but they are different ways of acquiring it. The act of passive euthanasia, is withdrawing the patient from his or her treatment and letting nature take its course, active euthanasia, is the act of a

Most nurses are drawn into the debate when they are treating terminally ill patients. They believe that even though it is the doctor that prescribes the lethal substances or withdrawals them from their treatment it is them, the nurses that stay with the patients until the end. Some nurses choose to help with assisting a terminally ill patient if requested knowing the legal and professional repercussions and some choose not to. There are developed guidelines stating that nurses have the right to refuse to assist a patient who has requested death assistance if it goes against their moral principles, but with that their oppositions must be stated ahead of time. Nurses on both ends are required to understand their rights and their patients’ rights (Ersek