Euthanasi Assisted Suicide And It

Euthanasia is the practice of ending the life of an individual for the purposes of relieving pain and suffering. Over the years, there has been a big debate about its merits and demerits, and the debate is not about to end anytime soon. However, no matter what side of the debate one supports, it is important to consider a few facts. One, the prolonged stay in hospital is bound to raise medical costs. Two, some medical complications bring suffering and pain to the patient without any possibility of getting back to one 's normal activities of daily living. However, ending the life of a person intentionally may be treated as a serious crime in some jurisdictions. Given these facts, it is evident that making a decision about euthanasia is bound to be a challenging task. Although not everyone might agree, euthanasia is a necessary procedure that relieves the pain and suffering of the patient and rids the family and the government of expensive medical costs that would not necessary improve the life of the patient.

Death is a touchy enough subject for people; add in the idea of assisted suicides and there’s an uproar in society. Euthanasia or physician assisted suicide is a very controversial topic in our society today. Physician assisted suicide by definition is “suicide by a patient facilitated by means (as a drug prescription) or information (as an indication of a lethal dosage) provided by a physician aware of the patient’s intent (Merriam-Webster). There are two modes of looking at assisted suicides; either it’s seen as an absurd immoral decision to take away the life of someone or it’s seen as a logical and peaceful release from pain and misery. There’s this idea that asking a healthcare provider to help you end your life is unfair and unnecessary, no matter how much a person is suffering suicide is not justified. People fear patients changing their minds, physicians being severely impacted by this, and families not agreeing with the decision making it hard to cope. On the other side people believe that it’s freedom of choice to choose to be medically assisted with a suicide; this is a right the patient has. Some believe if you’re in pain and dying why should you be forced to stay in a painful state of life. Freedom of choice versus life isn’t ours to take away. If you were in a terminally ill patients position, what would you do?

Why do people disagree with the euthanasia procedure? The reason for this lies in ethics. Of most religions people practice, death is thought to be the worst punishment possible. If death is the worst punishment, then suicide is thought to be a sense of punishment undeserved while you are in pain already because of a disease/sickness.

Albert Camus once quoted, “But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill them self.” Today I will be discussing the topic of Euthanasia also known as “assisted suicide.” The word originated from the Greeks, meaning “good death”. Euthanasia refers to the ending of one’s life, primarily to end suffering and pain. Euthanasia is a controversial topic and generates many political and religious debates. Although euthanasia is illegal in Canada, in some jurisdictions such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and the American states of Washington, Oregon and Montana, euthanasia is a legal and common practice.

Obviously, the proponents and opponents of legalizing euthanasia/assisted-suicide are fighting for what they believe is right. On the side of the proponents, they believe that patient’s should have the freedom to end their own life if they choose. They believe in the right-to-die and that everyone should have the ability to choose what they do with their own body. Contrasting this viewpoint, the

Euthanasia is the act or practice of taking someone’s life that has an incurable illness or injury or assisted suicide. Benefits with assisted suicide are helping the terminally ill person to avoid excruciating pain, it also help their loved ones who are dependent on to avoid extreme health care cost, and health care cost can be spend on caring for and research for the future. If there are the pros for euthanasia, there are also cons against euthanasia. Those who are against euthanasia are mostly due to their religious beliefs or the fact that doctors will have the advantage to take someone’s life without giving the patient a chance to be cured from their illness. These pros and cons are main reasons why assisted suicide is such a

Many legal, ethical and personal issues and dilemmas have been identified in relation to physician- assisted suicide and euthanasia. Issues such as whether physician- assisted suicide or euthanasia is ethically acceptable, or what criterion is legally and socially necessary to determine whether a person can receive assisted suicide measures to end ones life. A variety of literature reviews have been created to address this topic and generate knowledge and information for health care professionals. With this in mind, there are many phrases associated and utilized synonymously with the term physician- assisted suicide that need to be addressed such as physician- assisted death, euthanasia, and aid in dying, however each has been defined separately throughout the literature. Westefeld et al., (2013) and Landry, Foreman and Kekewich (2015) define physician- assisted death as voluntary termination of life through the administration, from the person requesting termination, of a lethal dose to end ones life. The Canadian Medical Association (2014) refers to euthanasia as “the practice of knowingly and intentionally performing an act with or without consent, that is explicitly intended to end another person life” (p. 2) by a physician. Lastly, aid is dying is the request of a prescription for medication; provided by a physician, that patients can self-administer to end ones life peacefully (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2013). For

Society views suicide as an unreasonable and inconsiderate action since there are many alternate avenues of help that a person could resort to. In the case of Euthanasia for a terminally ill being, there is no option to make things better. There is only medication that prolongs the death by temporally numbing the pain. One must imagine what the patient is feeling and at some point and set aside their feelings to be more understanding to that of the patient.

Imagine being in enough excruciating pain for a long enough time and deciding that even dying would be better. Assisted suicide is affecting more people around the world every day; either under agreeable or disagreeable terms, depending on each person’s opinion. What is assisted suicide and why is controversy over this topic still here after at least 1,500 years of existence (A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America)? There are many factors to consider when one wants to figure out the side of this global controversy they want to belong to. Some of these include financial demands, different types of assisted suicide, general suicidal rates (in areas where it is already legalized), demographic facts, and its history. Assisted suicide has produced a series of different outcomes within society: the raising of suicidal rates, arguing over the topic, and the increasing of its popularity within the world.

Euthanasia is a popular debate among our society today. It raises major concerns in terms of morals and ethics. Some may argue that euthanasia is morally wrong, while others think as human beings; we have the right to self-determination and should be able to choose our own fate. Growing up in a Catholic family and being raised as a true believer of God, I think that euthanasia causes an ethical dilemma.

Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, can legally help end terminally ill patients lives if they have no chance of getting better, so they are not forced to be in pain anymore. Not only is the patient suffering but the family is as well. Some people don’t have the money to keep giving their loved ones treatment to make them feel better. Not only this, but there is no point of giving the loved one treatment if they have no chance of getting better. In the United States there are only a few states that legalized euthanasia. Some of these states are Washington, Oregon, Colorado, California, Vermont, Montana, and DC. This is a really controversial topic still and the laws are so different country to country, like the Netherlands and Belgium.

     The most compelling aspect to euthanasia is the fact that it relieves the pain and suffering of a person with a terminal disease. When a patient knows and accepts that he/she is going to die death seems a better way out, rather than years of suffering. Not allowing Euthanasia is causing un-needed pain and suffering to patients whose only wish is that they could just pass away so the agonizing pain would go away. Whether the terminal disease is a type of cancer, tumor, or AIDS death is inevitable and the journey

Euthanasia is one of the most controversial topics in modern society, and every human being has a different view on it according to their culture, their nation's

“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.

Most people do not like to talk or even think about death; much less the topic of ending one’s own life. However, for some, death is a desired alternative to living in agony. Euthanasia has been a topic of debate since antiquity, and both sides stand firm on their beliefs. The right to choose death is illegal in most countries. I believe in people’s freedom to do what they please with their own bodies. The basic right of liberty is what America was founded on. Euthanasia should be a legal option.