Ethical Arguments Against Euthanasia

Euthanasia should be considered in all aspects of the medical field because people need to be in charge of their lives, statements from critics, and the serious evaluation process when chosen. Euthanasia can reserve all rights towards an individual’s choice towards death or not, because it is the person who has to endure and agonize through the incurable illness. An individual’s perspective on a situation is through their eyes and no one else, that is why euthanasia produces the choice of being alive or

Making policy solutions to problems where morality is the main focus has been getting harder for governments. The public policy dilemma surrounding the right to die is controversial and forces many individuals to question the decisions that governments make. Two groups are affected by the euthanasia legislation: people who voluntarily take their own lives and people who kill an individual who has not made a conscious decision to end their lives (Smith, 2015). The main focus of this paper is to highlight the predicament policy makers go through and examine the roles of governmental institutions who make attempts to settle these policy matters making everyone in the situation content. Throughout this paper, we will go through some important cases that may guide us to better understand the reason as to why policy makers form these decisions.

Envision you have just been diagnosed with end stage cancer. You are only given a few months remaining to live. Your doctor informs you of the frightening and painful experiences that await you. As your health begins to deteriorate, your family no longer recognizes the person that you once were. Would you choose the path to suffering tremendous amounts of pain or would you want to die peacefully before that occurred? Euthanasia is the assisted death option for those who are diagnosed with an incurable disease. It is the permissive right of voluntary suicide, to prevent those that are terminally ill from suffering in vain. Some terminally ill patients suffer a great deal of pain, and do not wish to prolong their suffering. Euthanasia ensures that a person with a degenerative disease can end their life with the assistance of the medical community. It should be the choice of the individual to end their suffering, the pain that their family goes through, emotionally and financially.

Should a person who is terminally ill, who feels that their life is not worth living due to unbearable pain, be given assistance in dying? Although not everyone will agree, I strongly agree that euthanasia should be legal in every state in the United States. Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease. Many people believe that Euthanasia should not be legalized in any state but the fact is that some people prefer to pull the plug rather than to go through misery. Several people in the U.S get diagnosed with diseases such as cancer, strokes, HIV, AIDS and etc.

The world is a place full of black and white along with so much gray. Many people who have heated debates usually have them on topics related to ethical dilemmas that range from abortion to politics to religion. No one ever agrees on everything all of the time which can leave a lot of issues unresolved or ignored. Most of the time a person and their worldview determines what they consider is an ethical choice. This paper will cover the ethical dilemma of euthanasia and how the Christian Worldview impacts that choice in comparison to other views.

In life there are countless experiences a human being will go through. Experiences is the encounter that life is all about. Unfortunately, some of these experiences will involve terminally ill individuals. These people are or will be plagued with mental health issues, physical sickness, and rare diseases. It is at this stage that the practice of medicine and doctors in specified fields will play a vital role to serve humanity. It is also a point, where some will find pain and suffering intolerable and will call on doctors and love ones to assist them in euthanasia.

When waking up in the morning at 4:30a.m, and having the interpretation to hunt. While others may agree that killing another is a justified, ending a life can be justified in the cases of hunting, Euthanasia and finally like George and Lennie.

avoid talking about. People have all sorts of differing opinions about what should and what shouldn’t be legal. The methods of Euthanasia are not as inhumane as many tend to believe it is. Also, the variety of choices the patient can mulligan over is actual quite diverse in most cases.

The fourth argument is that euthanasia allows doctors to make premature and ill-informed decisions about patient’s lives. There are cases where terminally ill patients have recovered after a lengthy stay in hospitals. There are also cases where patients in a deep coma have woken up to the amusement of doctors. Continued improvements in medical technologies and innovations in related disciplines make euthanasia an ineffective option to be implemented. The reason why the scientific community is working hard to develop improved medical technologies and procedures is that it wants to ensure that sick people recover fast and that healthy people do not fall sick. Thus, allowing euthanasia will erode any gains to be realized from scientific research.

“Dying is not a crime.” -Jack Kevorkian. This quote strongly relates to euthanasia due to the controversial argument of whether it should be illegal within the United States. Society is made up of individuals that each have their own set of ethical beliefs. Due to these beliefs, it is the basis in which they stand on arguments. This, in turn, influences their ideals of what is considered wrong. For instance, some people believe death should be natural, while others argue that it is a choice. However, death should be a choice, because it is morally unfair that one must go through unnecessary suffering. This is why euthanasia should be legalized.

Euthanasia is one of the most pressing social issues of our current times. It is a concept that has been under discussion for centuries due to its scientific, legal, and moral ambiguities. An ancient Greek tragedian once stated, “Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot...” (Torr 12). There will be a time in everyone's life where they will pass away, but the decision of when and how should ultimately be an individual’s choice. With that being said, doctors should be allowed to aid patients in physician-assisted suicide to give them an opportunity to go without suffering, and have a painless death.

In 1Corinthians 15:54 and 2Co 5:1 it says that death has been absorbed by the victory. This is making reference to the dignity of the dying person. The Church, by defending the sacred character of life in the moribund, does not obey any form of ending physical life. On the contrary, we researchers understand that the Church is teaching to respect the true dignity of a person, who is a creature of God, and is helping to accept serenely the death when the physical forces can no longer be sustained. In a Research about euthanasia described by doctors and pastors, Risto (2013), a Pastor was interviewed on how he viewed euthanasia, his response was, “I accept active euthanasia … Nobody owns us, and because we can always commit suicide we should, in my opinion, also have the opportunity to die through euthanasia.” This is an example that shows that not all people who believe in God, believe in forbidding someone in pain to die in peace. In the same research (Risto, 2013), a pediatrician said that if the patient is

The issues with euthanasia as an ethical issue is who has determined that this is right? Ethically who are we to decide when someone dies? When is it legal or ethically right to terminate a life? People who favor euthanasia and who do not have a Christian view say it is a person’s moral right to die with dignity, it is their constitutional right and this act is an act of mercy on the person who is suffering. They believe that it relives the family from suffering and financial burden and is just the most human thing that can be done (Geisler, 2010,

In the Ancient World, specifically Greece, Rome, and Egypt, society believed that if a person had no interest in continuing their life, then society had no bond to force them to continue it. Even in the 1930s there were organizations that aided in awareness and legalization of voluntary and assisted suicide (the Hemlock Society, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society). The issue became media frenzy in the late 1990s with the efforts of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and others and continues to be contentious (Fridstein, 10).

Medical ethics is always seen by many as an unusual blend; one many always seem to question. The fuse appeals to a range of different temperaments, to the philosopher, the doctor, and to the man or woman of action. It tackles the big questions of the morality of killing and the painstakingly difficult decisions having to be made by many on a daily basis. It also relates to the ethical spectrum as well, when can a mentally ill person be treated against their will? Is it a crime for any doctor to practice a form of euthanasia? Where better to start medical ethics, than with the complex topic of euthanasia.