Medicine and Euthanasia
Euthanasia
Thesis Statement
Euthanasia is a compassionate way to bring an end to the life of an individual. Euthanasia has become a problem in the world due to increase in its awful standing courtesy of pessimistic media. The governments need to carefully re-evaluate their policies and show its positive features to the world. Euthanasia can not be associated with killing as it is done upon the wish of an individual who requests for his death to be in less or no pain.
Introduction
Euthanasia is finishing the life of a human-being or an animal suffering from an incurable disease or terrible pain in the least possible painful manner. It is done by injecting a poisonous injection, withdrawing medical assistance or any other way likewise. Euthanasia is quite often associated with assisted suicide but there is a small difference between the two. The distinction is that the final act without which the death would not take place is performed by the patient in euthanasia whereas; the final act without which the death would not take place is assisted by someone else (Baird and Rosenbaum 24). The support for euthanasia started in U.K and U.S.A in 1935 and 1938 respectively when some organizations came in front demanding for its legalization (Otlowski 81).
Defense
1. There is no use of staying alive a few more weeks, months or years, but suffering and health conditions deteriorating day by day only to die in the end in more pain. For example, if you are about to die of an incurable disease and you know that it will only get worse, would you opt for a rather quick and painless death or would you like to suffer a lot. It is not that you are going to have a better death if you wait.
2. In the 21st century, dying is something that has become extremely frightening. The medical science has developed the skills and invented the technologies to elongate the time to death, resulting in needless pain for those who are kept alive without any real hope. Moreover, the families of
Thesis Statement
Euthanasia is a compassionate way to bring an end to the life of an individual. Euthanasia has become a problem in the world due to increase in its awful standing courtesy of pessimistic media. The governments need to carefully re-evaluate their policies and show its positive features to the world. Euthanasia can not be associated with killing as it is done upon the wish of an individual who requests for his death to be in less or no pain.
Introduction
Euthanasia is finishing the life of a human-being or an animal suffering from an incurable disease or terrible pain in the least possible painful manner. It is done by injecting a poisonous injection, withdrawing medical assistance or any other way likewise. Euthanasia is quite often associated with assisted suicide but there is a small difference between the two. The distinction is that the final act without which the death would not take place is performed by the patient in euthanasia whereas; the final act without which the death would not take place is assisted by someone else (Baird and Rosenbaum 24). The support for euthanasia started in U.K and U.S.A in 1935 and 1938 respectively when some organizations came in front demanding for its legalization (Otlowski 81).
Defense
1. There is no use of staying alive a few more weeks, months or years, but suffering and health conditions deteriorating day by day only to die in the end in more pain. For example, if you are about to die of an incurable disease and you know that it will only get worse, would you opt for a rather quick and painless death or would you like to suffer a lot. It is not that you are going to have a better death if you wait.
2. In the 21st century, dying is something that has become extremely frightening. The medical science has developed the skills and invented the technologies to elongate the time to death, resulting in needless pain for those who are kept alive without any real hope. Moreover, the families of
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