Euthanasia May Be Ethically Justified Analysis

Customize Your Death: Why Some Forms of Euthanasia may be Ethically Justified
Out of the study of religion, science and philosophy arise questions like, “who owns our lives?” or more strikingly, “can we and should we be allowed to take our own lives?” At first thought, suicide springs to mind, and the scenes of despair, depression and distress follow. Then, one might ask why voluntary death is associated with gloom when it may not necessarily be true. Indeed, to some people it is quite the opposite; death brings an end to all the suffering and pain of the world. They are the people who reason that when death is imminent we should have a choice to die within our own arrangements. They talk of euthanasia. However, positions on the practice
Pursuing the topic of voluntary euthanasia though, brings us to the same old, dead end theme of whether a person should have the right to terminate his life or not. So, we might as well take a stance here. If an individual has a right to self-determination in all events of his life, then death is only an ordinary event (Fenigsen 75). It is not a coincidence that the right to self-determination happens to be recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, our ethics tinted glasses will confirm this view. The fundamental rule of morality allows us to do anything that does not hamper the moral rights of other beings. That ending clause of protecting the moral rights of other beings adds a new dimension to our problem, but a brief interrogation will help us identify the candidates of “other beings.” The family of the person and his physicians are the only plausible beings whose moral rights may be at stake due to euthanasia. But as far as the family is concerned, death of a loved one will always bring emotional distress and heartache. So, it is highly advisable that the person does not put his family through the anguish of death, for his self-interest. However, under circumstances that death is imminent, and killing will only help the patient, voluntary death can only be good. Even for the family, euthanasia will come as a blessing in disguise—an arranged death of a loved one is arguably less traumatizing than an unexpected