Legalizing Euthanasia
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Legalizing Euthanasia
Euthanasia can be defined as a mercy killing and the way to relieve an incurable suffering of death by terminating one’s life. It was one of the ways to ease the incurable patient although they are suffering from critical diseases. Euthanasia should be legalized for the right of individual to end their life, reduce the financial problems that arise and lessen the pain endured by the terminally ill patients.
Firstly, individual has right to end their life. Other people should not interfere with a person’s personal decision. To maintain a person’s life without his or her consent is considered as unethical by law and we have violated the person’s freedom of choice. Article 28 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights stated that, everyone has the right to live where their freedom and rights are all respected by everyone. If the patients choose to die, we should allow them to discontinue their medical treatment. In Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights conclude that any person have their own rights and own opinion; where they can act any way they want and no one should forbid them from doing so. As stated by John Griffith and Heleen Weyers (2008), the United States Supreme Court and American Medical Association believe that terminal sedation is an acceptable alternative since it does not lessen anyone’s freedom. For example in the case Rodriguez v. British Columbia Attorney General (1993), the appellant, Sue Rodriguez, a 42-year-old mother, suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis appealed to the court to end her life. From the above facts, a terminally ill patient should not be stopped from choosing to end their life as by doing so will violates their total right as a free individual, notwithstanding morally wrong.
Next, the reason to legalize Euthanasia is to reduce the financial problems. Emanuel and Battin (1998) revealed that, “...one commentator observed: Managed care and managed death through...
Euthanasia can be defined as a mercy killing and the way to relieve an incurable suffering of death by terminating one’s life. It was one of the ways to ease the incurable patient although they are suffering from critical diseases. Euthanasia should be legalized for the right of individual to end their life, reduce the financial problems that arise and lessen the pain endured by the terminally ill patients.
Firstly, individual has right to end their life. Other people should not interfere with a person’s personal decision. To maintain a person’s life without his or her consent is considered as unethical by law and we have violated the person’s freedom of choice. Article 28 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights stated that, everyone has the right to live where their freedom and rights are all respected by everyone. If the patients choose to die, we should allow them to discontinue their medical treatment. In Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights conclude that any person have their own rights and own opinion; where they can act any way they want and no one should forbid them from doing so. As stated by John Griffith and Heleen Weyers (2008), the United States Supreme Court and American Medical Association believe that terminal sedation is an acceptable alternative since it does not lessen anyone’s freedom. For example in the case Rodriguez v. British Columbia Attorney General (1993), the appellant, Sue Rodriguez, a 42-year-old mother, suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis appealed to the court to end her life. From the above facts, a terminally ill patient should not be stopped from choosing to end their life as by doing so will violates their total right as a free individual, notwithstanding morally wrong.
Next, the reason to legalize Euthanasia is to reduce the financial problems. Emanuel and Battin (1998) revealed that, “...one commentator observed: Managed care and managed death through...