Argumentative Essay: Legalizing Euthanasia

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Euthanasia A terminal disease can take a toll on a person physically, mentally, and emotionally. Sometimes a disease can eat and eat at someone until they are tired of it and just want it to end. Euthanasia is a way that the pain and suffering can end for these miserable people. Euthanasia is assisted suicide by a doctor for people that have a terminal disease. Euthanasia could help a lot of people end their suffering and pain, but euthanasia is only legal in a few places. Euthanasia should be legal because it will save money for the economy, the alternatives are horrifying, it improves the quality of life and can be properly regulated. Euthanasia would not only save individuals and families a ton of money but also would save the economy …show more content…

Sprague said that the easiest way to save billions of dollars and not affect the heath care quality is legalizing euthanasia. There are always those miracle stories of people beating terminal illnesses but many don’t beat them. By letting these people not put their families and hospitals in debt and letting them die in a peaceful way should be legal. With euthanasia helping out people and the government financially, it will also help the person with the terminal disease. A terminal disease is a hard thing for a person to go through because of the fact that they have that constant pain and thought of knowing they can die at any time. The pain that these people go through emotionally and physically sometimes can be intolerable. People with cancer with pain due to infiltration on extremely sensitive nerves can feel like a dental drill on an unanaesthetised tooth nerve. (“Euthanasia Relieves Suffering”) Pain that is caused by cancer cannot always be …show more content…

The biggest and most important oath that a doctor takes is “first, do not harm” so if the doctor administers this drug then they would be going against what they said and believed in as a doctor. The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law stated: "Many physicians and others who oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia believe that the practices undermine the integrity of medicine and the patient-physician relation-ship. (Stevens)The reason most people become doctors are to help people and save lives, not take them. Many doctors that have been involved with euthanasia have been affected emotionally and psychologically. Dutch physician who performed euthanasia noted that: 'To kill someone is something far reaching and that is something that nags at your conscience. . . . I wonder what it would be like not to have these cases in my practice. Perhaps I would be a much more cheerful person.’” (Stevens) Most doctors say that after they have done euthanasia that they wish they wouldn’t have or they say that they will never do it again. Doctors seeing patients in pain and suffering might also distort their judgment on whether they should be euthanized or

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