Euthanasia

Have you ever imagined in a terrible healthy illness state? If you have not thought about this yet why do not you start? People who are in a hard situation of life or those who are suffering atrocious illnesses that cannot be cured want to make the decision of getting an assisted suicide. However, a lot of people argue that this is not the right way to die, and they provide plenty of excuses without basis to not perform this action. Unfortunately for those who are against euthanasia I have strong arguments to defend the practice of euthanasia.

In some patients the pain gets to the point to be unbearable. If you are dealing with an illness which is too painful, and even with medication you feel that awful pain, you deserve not to perceive that. How would you feel with something that is killing you from inside of your body all the time? People with chronical illnesses feel this pain every day, the only moment when they are not suffering is when they are sleep, because even when they are sedated, they perceive pain. ." we must be wary of those who are too willing to end the lives of the elderly and the ill. If we ever decide that a poor quality of life justifies ending that life, we have taken a step down a slippery slope that places all of us in danger. There is a difference between allowing nature to take its course and actively assisting death. The call for euthanasia surfaces in our society periodically, as it is doing now under the guise of "death with dignity" or assisted suicide. " I believe 'euthanasia' lies outside the commonly held life-centered values of the West and cannot be allowed without incurring great social and personal tragedy. This is not merely an intellectual conundrum. This issue involves actual human beings at risk..."  C. Everett Koop, M.D. *taken from the book KOOP, The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop, M.D., Random House, (1991). Euthanasia. (n.d.). National Right to Life. Retrieved October 18, 2010, fromhttp://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/index.html

People should not be forced to stay alive. At the moment of getting the age of majority, you take control over actions, and decisions. You are not a minor anymore, you are an adult. When you have decided to make the decision of being euthanized, your decision is what it worth, not others' opinions or decisions, you are the only one who is going through that situation. In other words, you are free to do with your body whatever you want; besides they cannot even imagine how you feel.

Opponents of this idea claim that euthanasia perverts the medical ethics since Hippocrates has focused on eliminating pain, not the patient. However, the era of Hippocrates was more than 2000 years ago; it was not even in our ages, but before Christ. Nowadays medicine is different from the one which was long time ago, changes of medicine have happened, the mentality of the human kind is different and what really matters if you are a physician is the wellness of your patient, but not yours. “Euthanasia is not the same thing as refusing burdensome medical treatment.

Refusing such treatment can be seen as allowing the dying to die in an appropriate way, which is not the same thing as causing the death of the living.

But what is burdensome medical treatment? There is no standard answer; each case should be looked at separately, balancing the amount of pain and suffering involved against the amount of good to be done. The issue is not the value of the life of the person concerned, but the value of the treatment to that person” BBC - Ethics: Euthanasia. (n.d.). BBC - Homepage. Retrieved October 18, (2010), fromhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/

As a conclusion you can see there are plenty of irrefutable reasons to get euthanized, and the only decision what matters is yours. I would like to have the right to choose my fate If I were dying with a terminal illness. It would be wrong for some people due to the moral aspect, but at the end it would be my life. We deserve to die when we want and the most important aspect is to pass away with dignity.

References:

Euthanasia. (n.d.). National Right to Life. Retrieved October 18, 2010, fromhttp://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/index.html

BBC - Ethics: Euthanasia. (n.d.). BBC - Homepage. Retrieved October 18, 2010, fromhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/