Euthanasia Right To Life And Right To Die Analysis
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Suresh Bada Math and Santosh K. Chaturvedi are both instituted at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, are both in the Department of Psychiatry and are both professors of psychiatry. In their article, “Euthanasia: Right to life vs right to die,” they provide a brief overview on euthanasia, rulings on euthanasia, arguments against euthanasia, and the counterarguments of euthanasia supporters. The word euthanasia, originated in Greece means a good death. Euthanasia ecompasses various dimensions, from active (introducing something to cause death) to passive (withholding treatment or supportive measures); voluntary (consent) to involuntary (consent from guardian) and physician assisted (where physicians prescribe the medicine and patient or the third party administers the medication to …show more content…
Jack Kevorkian as the man that started it all. He argued for the right of the terminally ill “to choose how they die.” Dr. Jack Kevorkian saw a problem in the United States, execution. By the growing number of executions in the United States, Dr. Kevorkian thought that inmates should have the choice to donate their organs and not die by poison or electric chair, but by anesthesia, (Schneider). Soon Schneider became “involved in the growing national debate on dying with dignity” in the Netherlands. After his first patient, Dr. Kevorkian said, “” My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience… I’m trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.”” With his growing popularity and movement, the “Michagan jury found Dr. Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder,” after “he had videotaped himself injecting Thomas Youk, with lethal drugs that caused Mr. Youk’s death on Sept. 17, 1998.” It wasn’t until 8 years later when Kevorkian was released after “promising not to conduct another assisted suicide.”
Suresh Bada Math and Santosh K. Chaturvedi are both instituted at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, are both in the Department of Psychiatry and are both professors of psychiatry. In their article, “Euthanasia: Right to life vs right to die,” they provide a brief overview on euthanasia, rulings on euthanasia, arguments against euthanasia, and the counterarguments of euthanasia supporters. The word euthanasia, originated in Greece means a good death. Euthanasia ecompasses various dimensions, from active (introducing something to cause death) to passive (withholding treatment or supportive measures); voluntary (consent) to involuntary (consent from guardian) and physician assisted (where physicians prescribe the medicine and patient or the third party administers the medication to …show more content…
Jack Kevorkian as the man that started it all. He argued for the right of the terminally ill “to choose how they die.” Dr. Jack Kevorkian saw a problem in the United States, execution. By the growing number of executions in the United States, Dr. Kevorkian thought that inmates should have the choice to donate their organs and not die by poison or electric chair, but by anesthesia, (Schneider). Soon Schneider became “involved in the growing national debate on dying with dignity” in the Netherlands. After his first patient, Dr. Kevorkian said, “” My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience… I’m trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.”” With his growing popularity and movement, the “Michagan jury found Dr. Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder,” after “he had videotaped himself injecting Thomas Youk, with lethal drugs that caused Mr. Youk’s death on Sept. 17, 1998.” It wasn’t until 8 years later when Kevorkian was released after “promising not to conduct another assisted suicide.”