Euthanasia

EUTHANASIA

Have you ever imagined suffering from a terrible illness? If you have not thought about this yet why do not you start? People who are in such as 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 avoid 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 have the right to stop that suffering. How would you feel with something that is killing you from inside and 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. ." Euthanasia is consider in different terms by people they think it is a assisted suicide while others think it is a death with dignity, however euthanasia is one of the topic most controversial in countries where it is practiced”            . 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 becoming the age of an adult, you take control over your actions, and your own 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 is 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 medicine which was practiced 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 nowadays seem such as a practice way to die, it is not the choose to live or die it is more than these option euthanasia is not the same thing as refusing burdensome medical treatment”. 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/