Arguments Against The End Of Life Choices For Patients

In the health care field, many things can be seen as ethically challenging. Many times, the choice for patients at the end of life care have asked for ways in which they can end their life and stop the suffering. A look at the differing opinions on each side of this debate shows why there is no clear and concise decision when it comes to the ethical issues that are related to the end of life choices for patients.
Arguments against the right to die legally include, but are not limited to: the availability of palliative care that can help relieve a patient’s pain and suffering, choosing to end life could demean the value of human life all together, elderly sometimes do not have the mental capability to make a choice, and ending a life due to the cost of care would put a price on a human life.
Palliative care is sympathetic care to keep the patient as comfortable as possible and is the last available care to the patient who is suffering from an incurable illness or disease. It has been argued that palliative care could decrease in use if the right to die becomes more prevalent. Ensuring that all patients have been
Religious people believe that dying with dignity is a beautified term for suicide and killing oneself does not allow for ascension into heaven. Christians believe that all life is given by God and that birth and death are parts of life’s process in which He created. They argue that we should respect these processes. Additionally, no human being has the right or authority to take the life of another person, even if he wants to die. Proposing to end a life asks someone else to judge the person as being incurable. Dying is a process that everyone goes through and the religious people believe that this is the most spiritual time a person has. Not only does the church regard committing suicide morally wrong, but also helping someone to commit