Euthanasia
has been a popular discussion among many people around the world and even I
also once had discussed about this issue with my family. According to BBC,
Euthanasia is the termination of a very sick person's life in order to relieve
them of their suffering ("Ethics of euthanasia," 2012). Euthanasia is
illegal in most countries, but there are still some doctors carry out
euthanasia. It is hard to decide whether euthanasia is a person’s right to die
or an act of murder. However, I think euthanasia is a person’s right to die as
long as it is a personal’s choice, a way to end the life of a terminally ill
patient who is undergoing severe pain and suffering, and eliminate a burden to
other people who take care of the terminal ill patients if patients got an
incurable condition.
To begin with, a person should have
a right to decide to die since our bodies are our own. In this way, we should
be allowed to do what we want with them and it seems unfair to those who wants
to die as we forbid them to live longer than they want. Additionally, even we
help or try to keep those who want to die to continue to live on this earth,
their mind had already gone and they are just become more and more stressful with
their lives. In fact making people go on living when they don't
want to violates their personal freedom and human rights ("Ethical
problems of," 2012). Furthermore, when one person wants to die by
euthanasia, but we forbid them, they will still try other ways to end their
lives. Thus, we should allow them to decide to continue to live or to die.
As a human nature, it is hard to see
by eyes for a terminal ill person who is undergoing severe pain and suffering.
Why don’t we just help them to end their suffering without any longer pain and
let them die peacefully? I find it is also a good deed to help ending the
server pain and suffering for a terminal ill person. Very often people call
euthanasia 'mercy killing', perhaps thinking of it for someone who is terminally
ill and suffering prolonged, unbearable pain ("Ethical problems of,"
2012). There is only a little chance for a terminal ill person to get recover
and if they could manage to do so, it will take a very long time. Consequently, euthanasia could help reducing
unbearable pain for many patients and the majority of them will thank to
euthanasia as they cannot manage to end their lives so.
It is just a waste of time and money if we
keep the patients with an incurable condition. In this respect, people who take
care of those patients have to spend a lot of their time taking care of them
and coincidently, spending a lot of money for treatment, buying medicine, and
feeding the patients. It is better to finish their life earlier in order to reduce
their pains and save the resources which needed to take care of those patients.
Similarly, it is all right for a rich family to keep the patients or their
family members as they have enough financial support and whatever the result is
okay for them. Most of the middle and
poor family need to borrow money in order to cover the medical expenses for the
patients in the prolong term. The patients can later paid the debt which borrow
by their family if they can get recover; however, the majority of them do not
recover, so their families have to pay the debt and the patients do not get
recover. As a result, we should end up the terminal ill person with severe pain
and suffering in order to avoid a prolong burden for the patients’ families. In
addition, the patients sometimes also do not want to be dependent on other
people.
In conclusion, there are many
different ideas or perspectives toward euthanasia and most of the main reason
people seek euthanasia is unbearable pain. However, euthanasia was ban by the
law in most countries, but there are still some circumstances which allow
euthanasia to be legal. In my view, euthanasia is a person’s right to die
because it is a personal’s choice, an effective way to relieve pain for a
terminal ill person, and eliminate a burden for other people. It is up to each individual to decide whether
euthanasia is a person’s right to die or an act of murder. Before making decision,
you can imagine that you are in an incurable condition and decide whether you
choose euthanasia or keep going on until the end of your life.
References
Ethics of euthanasia – introduction.
(2012).
Retrieved from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/overview/introduction.shtml#top
Ethical
problems of euthanasia.
(2012). Retrieved from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/overview/problems.shtmll
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