Ethical Argument Against Euthanasia

As medicine and its technology has advanced, so has the question of human euthanasia and the ethical opinions behind it. The attitudes and thoughts behind this topic are different in many different countries and throughout this paper I will compare the differences of euthanasia in certain countries and also, explain how I feel the topic. This is a topic that has rapidly grown over the past few years but has been a part of history since there were indigenous tribes before their lands were even colonized. From the beginning of time, like I mentioned in my previous paragraph, indigenous tribes were practicing euthanasia far before ethics and laws were prominent in the world. For these tribes, euthanasia was used for a number of reasons such as, population control during times of hunger and famine, as well as for the terminally ill as a mercy act. Today, euthanasia is still used as a form of mercy for the terminally ill that are going to spend the rest of their life suffering until they eventually die a slow, painful death. Although euthanasia is mainly frowned upon and discouraged in Western medicine, there are still countries that have laws set in place for the people who wish to pursue their own death.
In the Netherlands, physicians have been practicing human euthanasia since around 1973 even though they were considered illegal until 2002.
I feel that one day human euthanization will no longer be so taboo and out of the norm in Western medicine or anywhere else in the world for that matter. This is a topic based on human rights and each and every person should have the right to decide when they go in a respectful way without having to go the route of blatant suicide, which occurs over 2,000 times per day around the world. Human euthanization allows one to get their personal affairs in order and for them to properly say goodbye to loved ones before they