Euthanasia: mercy or crime?
Euthanasia: mercy or crime?
"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government."... Thomas Jefferson
Euthanasia is helping somebody to die when they have a terminal ill and in pain. This practice could be consider a crime or not depending on the country. While in many countries is illegal, in countries like Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Albania it is allowed. There, doctors could help patient to death when she or he has a incurable and painful disease and requests it. There is a lot of controversy about this issue. Should we have the right to decide between suffering and death? Is there a difference between killing and allow doctors to give life-ending medications?
Some people argue that Euthanasia is not necessary because there is another way to avoid unnecessary suffering. This is stop the treatment of a terminally ill patient under the decision of she or himself or, in some cases, her or his family. I don’t agree with them because that procedure can cause a prolonged and unnecessary suffering such as the case of Terri Schiavo. Terri was a woman who suffered brain damage and depended on others assistance for elemental things like eating and drinking. After 15 years, her husband got authorization from to court to let her die. She suffered 13 days of being starved and thirsty until she finally died. People said that euthanasia is immoral and has to be consider as homicide. In my opinion it is an act of mercy. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree homicide for give to a patient a lethal injection, said “If you don’t have liberty and self determination, you've got nothing, that's what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you’re going to die when you're suffering”. Some people opposed euthanasia on religious bases. They state only God has the right to take
"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government."... Thomas Jefferson
Euthanasia is helping somebody to die when they have a terminal ill and in pain. This practice could be consider a crime or not depending on the country. While in many countries is illegal, in countries like Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Albania it is allowed. There, doctors could help patient to death when she or he has a incurable and painful disease and requests it. There is a lot of controversy about this issue. Should we have the right to decide between suffering and death? Is there a difference between killing and allow doctors to give life-ending medications?
Some people argue that Euthanasia is not necessary because there is another way to avoid unnecessary suffering. This is stop the treatment of a terminally ill patient under the decision of she or himself or, in some cases, her or his family. I don’t agree with them because that procedure can cause a prolonged and unnecessary suffering such as the case of Terri Schiavo. Terri was a woman who suffered brain damage and depended on others assistance for elemental things like eating and drinking. After 15 years, her husband got authorization from to court to let her die. She suffered 13 days of being starved and thirsty until she finally died. People said that euthanasia is immoral and has to be consider as homicide. In my opinion it is an act of mercy. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree homicide for give to a patient a lethal injection, said “If you don’t have liberty and self determination, you've got nothing, that's what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you’re going to die when you're suffering”. Some people opposed euthanasia on religious bases. They state only God has the right to take