When a sick or elderly patient asks for euthanasia, it can sometimes be caused by psychological and emotional pressures. The opposition to euthanasia does not mean that people insist on medical treatment at all costs. Good medical practice is the alternative to euthanasia. Sometimes a difference is made between active euthanasia (e.g. giving a lethal injection) and positive euthanasia (withdrawing treatment). It is misleading to describe withholding or discontinuing treatment as ‘euthanasia unless it is done with the intention of killing the patient. This debate happens all the time even when it’s not publicized.
People may agree or disagree but who can really know what a person is feeling g about the issue until they are actually in that situation? I …show more content…
believe that if I was in that kind of situation I would go along with what they want to do. I would not want to go through that pain or I wouldn’t want anybody else going through the suffering. I hope I never go through something like this but if I was to go through the pain and suffering I would look it with a hold different view.
Euthanasia allows patients death with dignity because continuing to live can inflict more problems, on both the patient having to cope with the pain and indignity of a prolonged death, and the family because it is distressing having to witness the gradual decline of a loved one.
Economic reasons are for euthanasia, life support machines are expensive to run. If the situation looks completely useless why not end some ones live. The tax-payers have to pay more money to drag someone through unnecessary pain. It will save more money. In the United Kingdom there is a shortage of life support machines, euthanasia can remove someone unlikely to recover and gave the chance of recovery to someone
else.
It is really called mercy killing. It is intentionally making someone die, rather than allowing that person to die naturally. It I sometimes the act of ending someone life, which is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. Euthanasia is mostly illegal in the world today. It can be considered a form of suicide, if a person afflicted with the problem actively does it.