Pros And Cons Of Euthanasia Essay

“Should Euthanasia be allowed?” Medicine has advanced noticeably in the last hundred years. Diseases that killed millions of people for centuries have been treated by doctors, who have studied and learned new ways to treat and cure these conditions. However, despite the great achievements that made the science of medicine, there still exist many diseases that not only cannot be cured, but also cause unbelievable torture for the people who have them. Victims with those kinds of incurable diseases probably want to ask for euthanasia. Unfortunately, euthanasia is prohibited in some countries that refer to it as immoral and illegal, which is not necessarily true. In that case, incurably sick people who are experiencing an extreme pain should

For example, the famous case of Terri Schiavo that was reported in the BBC News. Terri Schiavo was a woman who was severely brain-damaged in 1990. Her family was desperate because they want to avoid her all that suffering by removing the feeding tube that she used for fifteen years of her life after the accident. It was a big case because even George Bush and the Republican Congress were involved. They didn’t want to remove the feeding tube, but the family of Schiavo insisted so much that Bush flies to Florida to sign in the paper that allowed the doctors to remove the feeding tube that was attached to the woman for fifteen years of her life. For Schiavo’s family was a big accomplishment because they just wanted to end the pain and suffering of the woman. Another big case that did not end so well was the one of Tony Nicklinson. He was a 57-year-old man that had the “locked-in syndrome” that is a syndrome where people who have it cannot move a single muscle. Tony was ready to die; he did not want to live anymore and decided to ask if he could practice the euthanasia method to finish with his life. In 2010 and 2012 was denied to use euthanasia to die by the British High Court. Under those circumstances, unable to commit suicide and also unable to ask anyone to help him end whit his life, Tony decided to starve until death. He resisted ten days and he died in his home, with the presence of his wife and his two daughters. These examples are just two of many others. Patients with serious and painful illnesses are affected and with them, their families, but the society convicted them to live. Why they cannot decide the fate in their