Essay On Euthanasia In Australia

Visualize yourself lying lifelessly on a bed in the middle of a dank, dark hospital room. Isolated, lonely with nothing but your thoughts to reflect on. Tubes protruding out of yours arms, infiltrating your aching body. You can’t move, can’t speak but can feel the pain, so much endless pain. No happiness, no liberty, no solutions. This is no way how anyone’s life should be. Would you like to live this way? Would you want your loved ones living like this?

Euthanasia, comes from the Greek word meaning “good death”, and is the practice of assisted suicide with the purpose of relieving pain and agony. The people who opt for euthanasia suffer from an incurable and painful disease or are in an irreversible coma. Euthanasia has been the subject of much moral, religious, philosophical, legal and human rights debate in Australia. At the core of this debate is how to
From personal experience, I have come to understand the strains and grief of the issue when my grandfather was suffering from terminal thyroid cancer. He told me how painful everyday was for him, with constant flows of morphine giving him temporary relief. On top of this the constant thought that eventually this illness would kill him, no matter what happens. He was helpless and there was nothing we could do for him while he suffered. My grandfather and my family shouldn't have had to endure through this nightmare. I know that my grandfather didn't want to live like this, nobody does. Why wouldn't you want to help end the anguish? Are you so selfish so that you would keep them in pain just for your benefit? I hope not. The ambitions of the health and medical institutions should remain one of saving lives but this should not be at the cost of compassion for the terminally ill and their right to choose how to end their life and die with dignity. So help legalise euthanasia, so we can make a difference for those in need and give them the