Should Euthanasia Be Allowed or Forbidden?
Euthanasia should be allowed./ Euthanasia should be forbidden.
Euthanasia should be allowed.
Reason 1: Those who are suffering from painful diseases do not have to suffer any more.
Supports and sources:
1) Jose, a patient who suffered from incurable disease, begged for mercy killing because she couldn’t endure the pain anymore.
Dinyar Godrej, A Careful Death, April 1997 issue of the New Internationalist.
2) Chantal Sebire, a woman whose face was horribly disfigured. She fought for the right to take a lethal dose of barbiturates, but in vain. She lived her life painfully and later was found dead at home.
BBC NEWS, Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Reason 2: The medical cost for keeping a seriously ill person alive cost a fortune for both the government and the family.
Supports and sources: 1) In 2009, Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives.
KevinMD.com, social media’s leading physician voice: http://www.kevinmd.com 2) Marcia Klish, a 71 years old lady, and has been unconscious in the intensive care for a week. it costs up to $10,000 a day in intensive care, the cost is really a burden to her family.
CBS NEWS, August 8, 2010
Reason 3: Keeping a seriously ill or a dying person alive may waste the medical resources.
Supports and sources:
1) Malyia Jeffers, a 2 years old girl who had a fever one afternoon. She was send to the hospital by the next morning, but waited for 5 hours when there were finally a room for her. In the end her left hand and some
of the fingers on right hand and her legs below the knees were being amputated.
Sabriya Rice, January 13, 2011, CNN NEWS
2) According to a leading medical ethicist, “hydrating and feeding dementia patients is a waste of the National Health Service’s resources”.
Catholicherald.co.uk: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk
Euthanasia should be forbidden.
Reason 1: Patient who suffers a lot may
Euthanasia should be allowed.
Reason 1: Those who are suffering from painful diseases do not have to suffer any more.
Supports and sources:
1) Jose, a patient who suffered from incurable disease, begged for mercy killing because she couldn’t endure the pain anymore.
Dinyar Godrej, A Careful Death, April 1997 issue of the New Internationalist.
2) Chantal Sebire, a woman whose face was horribly disfigured. She fought for the right to take a lethal dose of barbiturates, but in vain. She lived her life painfully and later was found dead at home.
BBC NEWS, Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Reason 2: The medical cost for keeping a seriously ill person alive cost a fortune for both the government and the family.
Supports and sources: 1) In 2009, Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives.
KevinMD.com, social media’s leading physician voice: http://www.kevinmd.com 2) Marcia Klish, a 71 years old lady, and has been unconscious in the intensive care for a week. it costs up to $10,000 a day in intensive care, the cost is really a burden to her family.
CBS NEWS, August 8, 2010
Reason 3: Keeping a seriously ill or a dying person alive may waste the medical resources.
Supports and sources:
1) Malyia Jeffers, a 2 years old girl who had a fever one afternoon. She was send to the hospital by the next morning, but waited for 5 hours when there were finally a room for her. In the end her left hand and some
of the fingers on right hand and her legs below the knees were being amputated.
Sabriya Rice, January 13, 2011, CNN NEWS
2) According to a leading medical ethicist, “hydrating and feeding dementia patients is a waste of the National Health Service’s resources”.
Catholicherald.co.uk: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk
Euthanasia should be forbidden.
Reason 1: Patient who suffers a lot may