Legalization Of Euthanasia In Australia
Legalization of Euthanasia in Australia
INTRODUCTION
Today I’m going to talk about the legalization of Euthanasia in Australia and here is a personal story for you to think about.
It’s been eight months since your father, once an active and energetic man, has been diagnosed with motor neuron disease. The effects of the disease are beginning to take their toll on him and now with his limited motor skills, he has recently been confined to a wheelchair. The doctors tell your family that he has less than twelve months to live and that the disease will get progressively worse as time passes. Your father, who is a dignified man, has been asking for assisted suicide, euthanasia, but it isn’t allowed where you live. Don’t you believe he has the right to a dignified death and to be put out of the incredible pain he is in? Everyone should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives.
Euthanasia is a term still new to many of us. It originates from a Greek term meaning “good death” and it means self-imposed death in a relatively painless and merciful way. Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, including voluntary which means the patient has given consent, non-voluntary which means the patient wasn’t able to give consent and in-voluntary which means it was given against the persons will. It is also categorized further to passive which means withholding the patient from common treatments and active euthanasia which means injecting a substance that ends the patients live nearly immediately. I strongly believe that in-voluntary euthanasia is extremely wrong and unacceptable, but euthanasia under the right rules and regulations gives a person the choice on how they live and die while also being put out of incredible amounts of suffering and therefore should be legalized in Australia.
BODY PARAGRAPHS
Pain varies from the slight tingle to pain we can’t ignore, and when it is the latter it causes the whole universe to fade out, until there is
INTRODUCTION
Today I’m going to talk about the legalization of Euthanasia in Australia and here is a personal story for you to think about.
It’s been eight months since your father, once an active and energetic man, has been diagnosed with motor neuron disease. The effects of the disease are beginning to take their toll on him and now with his limited motor skills, he has recently been confined to a wheelchair. The doctors tell your family that he has less than twelve months to live and that the disease will get progressively worse as time passes. Your father, who is a dignified man, has been asking for assisted suicide, euthanasia, but it isn’t allowed where you live. Don’t you believe he has the right to a dignified death and to be put out of the incredible pain he is in? Everyone should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives.
Euthanasia is a term still new to many of us. It originates from a Greek term meaning “good death” and it means self-imposed death in a relatively painless and merciful way. Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, including voluntary which means the patient has given consent, non-voluntary which means the patient wasn’t able to give consent and in-voluntary which means it was given against the persons will. It is also categorized further to passive which means withholding the patient from common treatments and active euthanasia which means injecting a substance that ends the patients live nearly immediately. I strongly believe that in-voluntary euthanasia is extremely wrong and unacceptable, but euthanasia under the right rules and regulations gives a person the choice on how they live and die while also being put out of incredible amounts of suffering and therefore should be legalized in Australia.
BODY PARAGRAPHS
Pain varies from the slight tingle to pain we can’t ignore, and when it is the latter it causes the whole universe to fade out, until there is