Euthanasia
Imagine a world where anyone, even the curably ill or depressed, is easily assisted in suicide. When someone else decides when your life is no longer worth living. When it is the societal expectation to die rather than receive long term care. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the world that awaits us if we legalize euthanasia.
The term euthanasia comes from the Greek word euthanatos meaning easy death. It is also called mercy killing. It is the act of purposely making or helping someone die instead of allowing nature takes its course. Basically, euthanasia means killing in the name of compassion. On the contrary, it promotes abuse; it gives the right to murder and in addition, is contradictory to religious beliefs.
Today, I will convince you that even if euthanasia stops the person from having a bad quality of life, it should not be legalize because it violates morals and values.
The first problem with legalizing Euthanasia is it promotes abuse. The abuse can be seen in the Netherlands. In 1990, 1030 Dutch patients were killed without their consent. More than 12% of these patients were mentally competent but were not consulted at all. These deaths were essentially murders, and since Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands, these deaths went, and will go, unpunished. The abuse of the Dutch system also extends to lethal injections of disabled babies. Babies cannot give permission to take their own lives, yet 8% of all infant mortalities in Holland occur from Euthanasia.
Other than promoting abuse and giving the right to murder, the second problem with Euthanasia is it contradicts religious beliefs. Euthanasia contradicts more than just one religion and is considered to be sinful. The Roman Catholic Church has its own opinion on Euthanasia. The Vatican's 1980 Declaration on Euthanasia said in part "No one can make an attempt on the life of an innocent person without opposing God's love for that person, without violating a right and without committing a crime of the
The term euthanasia comes from the Greek word euthanatos meaning easy death. It is also called mercy killing. It is the act of purposely making or helping someone die instead of allowing nature takes its course. Basically, euthanasia means killing in the name of compassion. On the contrary, it promotes abuse; it gives the right to murder and in addition, is contradictory to religious beliefs.
Today, I will convince you that even if euthanasia stops the person from having a bad quality of life, it should not be legalize because it violates morals and values.
The first problem with legalizing Euthanasia is it promotes abuse. The abuse can be seen in the Netherlands. In 1990, 1030 Dutch patients were killed without their consent. More than 12% of these patients were mentally competent but were not consulted at all. These deaths were essentially murders, and since Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands, these deaths went, and will go, unpunished. The abuse of the Dutch system also extends to lethal injections of disabled babies. Babies cannot give permission to take their own lives, yet 8% of all infant mortalities in Holland occur from Euthanasia.
Other than promoting abuse and giving the right to murder, the second problem with Euthanasia is it contradicts religious beliefs. Euthanasia contradicts more than just one religion and is considered to be sinful. The Roman Catholic Church has its own opinion on Euthanasia. The Vatican's 1980 Declaration on Euthanasia said in part "No one can make an attempt on the life of an innocent person without opposing God's love for that person, without violating a right and without committing a crime of the