Ethical Arguments Against Euthanasia

Euthanasia, or assisted suicide, is a procedure that allows the patient to die under the conditions that the disease is uncurable and only results in death in a short period of time. So for an example if a person has cancer and their estimate of life is one to three months then they could opt for a mercy killing. However if a person has another terminal disease longer than six months, such as AIDS, then it would be deemed “moral to let the person live in slow suffering.
Euthanasia is controversial when it comes to a bio ethical stand point. Is moral to let a person die if he or she is suffering or she we keep applying the medicine that would relieve the suffering but won’t cure the person? It should be noted that there are diseases that were deemed terminal but most certainly beatable as well as there being such things as misdiagnosis by physicals. And if we implore the idea of Euthanasia than all that is being promoted is death and mental trauma to the patients and their loved ones. Euthanasia is an unethical procedure and shouldn’t be practiced.
Before I continue on as to why euthanasia is unethical I want to explain the two types of euthanasia and its perceived ideas as to why it’s the way to go. Euthanasia has two forms passive and active euthanasia. …show more content…
He explains throughout his article that no matter what there is no moral difference between passive and active euthanasia. He states “… passive euthanasia the doctor does nothing, for he does do one thing that is very important: he lets the patient die.” a physician is letting the patient suffer because of passive euthanasia. But he asks isn’t that a crueler thought? Because the physician gave up or even the patient gave up now the patient has to suffer? In that case they should opt for a mercy killing because at least the patient doesn’t have to wait to die