Case Study Essay

Euthanasia is the deliberate act of putting an end to a patient’s life for the purpose of ending the patients suffering. But can it ever be right to kill patients, even with the intent to ease suffering? To kill patients, even with the intent to ease suffering, is considered homicide. Over the past years euthanasia has been defeated and become illegal in every country besides Netherland and Belgium. I am afraid that if euthanasia could have been legalised in those two countries, it’s a matter of time; the whole world would approval and soon follows the Dutch’s example of ‘good and easy death.’ Once legalised, euthanasia will become a means of health care containment, will become involuntary and would not only apply for the terminally ill,

Today, there is a large debate over the situation and consequences of euthanasia. Euthanasia is the act of ending a human’s life by lethal injection or the stoppage of medication, or medical treatment. It has been denied by most of today’s population and is illegal in the fifty states of the United States. Usually, those who undergo this treatment have a disease or an “unbearable” pain somewhere in the body or the mind. Since there are ways, other than ending life, to stop pain caused by illness or depression, euthanasia is immoral, a disgrace to humanity, according to the Hippocratic Oath, and should be illegal throughout the United States.

Active and passive euthanasia has been a controversial topic for many decades. Medicine has become so advanced, even the most ill patients can be kept alive by artificial means. Active euthanasia is a deliberate action taken to end a person’s life, such as lethal dose of medication (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2014). Passive euthanasia is allowing a person to die by not intervening or stopping a treatment that is keeping them alive (Garrard, 2014). There are three main arguments within this issue; Firstly, in the healthcare setting, it is morally accepted to allow a patient to die but purposely killing a patient is not (Garrard, 2014). Secondly, some people believe there is no moral difference between passive and active euthanasia.

Explain to her (through her daughter as necessary) what you will be doing. You might want to explain that t takes extra time to listen to her heart & that just because you listen for a long time does not indicate there is a problem. Move your stethoscope in inch-long increments, in a Z pattern across the chest, from the base of the heart, across & down, then over to the apex. Although heart sounds are generally lower in pitch,

In “Active and Passive Euthanasia”, James Rachels argues that both degrees of euthanasia are morally permissible and the American Medical Association (AMA) policy that supports the conventional doctrine is not sound. Rachels establishes that the conventional doctrine is the belief that, in some cases, passive euthanasia is morally permitted, while active euthanasia, under all circumstances, is

In contrary to James Rachel, authors Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle have viewpoints that differ from the of Rachel's in their selection of the BioEthics: An Anthology. Grisez and Boyle state that euthanasia is immoral and disrespectful to one's self. They also state that it is going against the good of others. In their eyes there is no distinction between intent, attempt and successful killing by stating that if a person even thinks about killing someone then they are already a murderer. Grisezz and Boyle, do state that killing in self defense should be the only exception to this idea.

A state's categorical ban on physician assistance to suicide as applied to terminally ill patients who wish to avoid unendurable pain and hasten inevitable death substantially interferes with this protected liberty interest and cannot be sustained. The right of a competent, terminally ill person to avoid excruciating pain and embrace a timely and dignified death bears the sanction of history and is implicit in the concept of ordered liberty. The exercise of this right is as central to personal autonomy and bodily integrity as rights safeguarded by this Court's decisions relating to marriage, family relationships,

“The killing of a person is not ‘compassionate’ it is not ‘euthanasia’. It is murder.” This was said by Stella Young (has died). She was born with a genetic disorder that caused her bones to be fragile and brake easily. Even though she was always in a wheel chair she never felt different or wanted to be treated different, she had a job and a life. Although once she had a chance to change her way of thinking, when her grandfather was sick and they were just waiting for him to die. But she didn’t she stayed strong with standing against euthanasia. She didn’t want to do it to her grandfather or herself even if she was in pain. Like Stella Young even if she was in pain, Euthanasia is still and will always be considered murder.

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In “Active and Passive Euthanasia”, James Rachels argues that, morally, active and passive euthanasia are the same. Rachels’ strongest argument for this claim is that killing is not worse then letting one die. Since active euthanasia is killing and passive euthanasia is letting one die, morally active and passive euthanasia are the same (Rachels, 1997). I intend to argue that this argument fails because factors such as intent and cause of death play a role in passive and active euthanasia and when these factors are present it can be said that active and passive euthanasia are not the same and in fact active euthanasia is morally worse then passive euthanasia.

Euthanasia is not a crime! Euthanasia is the action of a doctor-assisted death when terminally ill and in pain. It’s ending a life to relieve intractable suffering by a lethal painless dose of medicine. It is a very contradicting subject that has equal opposing sides. Euthanasia should be legalized in America because it goes with one's rights, can help the economy, and will stop discrimination.

Euthanasia debate opposes two sides in which one side argues that letting someone suffer is not ethical and the other side defend that to help someone to die is not ethical based on the morality that no one should kill or help someone to die (fundamental right that everyone is allowed to live), they judge that euthanasia should compromise the criminal code. For my own morality, I am for the euthanasia possibility for the people in need to die for the reason of the person’s well-being.

Therefore, given the preceding reasons for the truth of the premises, and the valid argument form, modus ponens, the argument against euthanasia is sound. In defense of the premises, I utilized the moral theory of natural law. For this theory, an action is judged to be moral or immoral based on it being in accord with the natural law or not. This natural law is built into our very nature as human beings, so an action is moral if it is consistent with our nature. I used this moral theory to show that the desire to survive is a part of our natural law, and thus euthanasia is against our natural law as human beings.

Death has always been a controversial topic throughout the world. There are many theories as to where we go and what the meaning of life truly is. How one dies is important in today’s society, especially when it comes to the idea of suicide. Active euthanasia, also referred to as assisted suicide, is the intentional act of causing the death of a patient experiencing great suffering. It is illegal in some places, like France, but allowing patients to die is authorized by law in other places under certain conditions. Doug McManaman constructed an argument, “Active Euthanasia Is Never Morally Justified,” to defend his view that active euthanasia is never morally

One of the most controversial topics in the United States is whether or not euthanasia should be legalized. Though it is not one of the more popular topics discussed in the media, euthanasia is just as important as the others. Euthanasia is defined as “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma,” and is also referred to as mercy killing (Oxford Dictionaries, 2014a). Though mercy killing is looked at as homicide, not all homicide is illegal. Killing is only seen excusable when it is used as self-defense or as criminal punishment; however, when a kill takes place in any other situation, it is seen as something that is unacceptable and inexcusable.