Euthanasia Is The Act Of Killing Someone

Assisted suicide is an ethical topic that has sparked up many controversies. Individuals have heated disputes on whether or not patients who are suffering should have the right to die. Some worry that legalizing euthanasia is irrational and would violate some religions, while others argue that it provides a peaceful death towards terminally ill patients who are suffering from pain. Physician-assisted suicide is a contentious matter, in which there are many positive and negative aspects, whether or not it should be committed is a complex decision.

Today, six states in the Unites States have legalized physician assisted suicide. Even though the Court concluded that there is no constitutional right to die in June of 1977, judges did not forbid states from passing laws that could enact a constitutional right to die (Lachman 1). Cases, such as the Brittany Maynard case, have led to the legalization of physician assisted suicide in some states. Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with a rapidly growing brain tumor. At that time California had not legalized physician assisted suicide, so she moved to Oregon to take the physician described medication. Maynard was applauded for her courage and sensibility. This case lead to the belief that every terminally ill patient’s death is agonizing. In addition,

Though one is not a supporter of euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, circumstances can easily influence the choice to undertake. However, one should not advocate or condone assisted suicide just because a patient feels they should die. The option of assisted suicide (Physician Assisted Suicide) should be left for terminally ill patients, whose death is expected to be slow and painful both to the patient and family around them.

The recent case of a woman, Brittany Maynard, who chose to end her life before she experienced the severe side effects of Glioblastoma has sparked a debate on whether Physician Assisted Suicide should be made legal in all fifty states. Some people believe that Physician Assisted Suicide violates the Hippocratic Oath, gives a doctor too much power, or leaves vulnerable groups at risk. Others feel that Physician Assisted Suicide will benefit the terminally ill. Physician Assisted Suicide will benefit the terminally ill by offering the option to cease their pain and suffering with a painless medication prescribed by a physician when they feel their quality of life has diminished, and is no longer worth living. With this option available, people can exercise their rights over their body and life, die with a sense of dignity, make organs available to patients who need them if it were legal, and it removes the physician from the death directly leaving it to be a personal exit to one’s life.

Physician assisted suicide or shall I call it physician assisted death is another way to end one’s life with assistance of a physician. What makes this assistance possible is a terminally ill person with six months to live. Brittany Maynard, a 29 year old Californian advocate for “Right to Die”, was diagnosed with brain cancer and decided to move to Oregon to take advantage of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Law. Brittany had become the face of the United States right to die debate. Before Brittany ended her life she posted her final Facebook post “Goodbye to all my dear friends that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me…but would have taken so much more”(Maynard). Maynard made a choice to end her life knowing she had limited time to live. She did not want to suffer in her last days. I believe

At the young age of 29, Brittany Maynard had decided to end her life. She was happily married for about a year, but was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer (Maynard). She had gone through many medical treatments, but they were not enough to cure her, and her life was slowly dwindling apart. As she was living in constant pain and had frequent visits to hospitals, she reached the conclusion that there was no way she was going to live, and had carefully decided with her family that she wanted to pass away with her dignity intact by assisted suicide (Maynard). Physician assisted suicide is when a terminally ill patient is aided by a physician that prescribes drugs to help the patient end their own life. The arguments on both sides of this controversial

Allowing terminally ill, patients facing imminent death and people in excruciating pain the right to end life relieves the suffering and pain they are experiencing. These people with incurable diseases and conditions do not want to live the last days of life in a hospital room in immense pain, attached to tubes and machines that are the difference between life and death. Many people do not understand the perspective from a patient's point of view unless, they are in this situation, in the unbearable pain that makes each day painful. This was the case for Brittany Maynard, a twenty nine year old woman who was diagnosed with glioblastoma. She was told that she only had six months to live because of her terrible tumor, there is no cure for her disease and she new she would die. The best option for her situation seemed to be assisted suicide. Brittany and her husband moved to Oregon, which is one of the few states that has legalized assisted suicide in order to pursue her wish of ending her life. According to Brittany “I've discussed with many experts how I would die from it and it's a terrible, terrible way to die. So being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying." Being able to have a choice and dignity does not make patients weak and does not mean that they are giving up, it simply means they do not want to remember life to be painful and have their family members have this as their last

The story of Brittany Maynard continues to sweep the nation and has sparked a highly controversial debate concerning the legality and ethicality of assisting in one’s death. When twenty-nine year old Maynard was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and given less than six months to live, she made the difficult decision to pick up and move to Portland, Oregon. Oregon exists as one of only four states that have legalized assisted suicide (Egan 60-64). In Oregon, she legally ended her battle with cancer in a dignified manner (Egan 60-64). The American Heritage Dictionary defines euthanasia as, “the action of inducing the painless death of a person for reasons assumed to be merciful” (Morris 453). There are more people than just Maynard who are strong

“I am not suicidal. I do not want to die. But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms,” wrote Brittany Maynard. Brittany is a 29-year-old girl, who was diagnosed in April with stage 4 globlastoma – a malignant brain tumour – and quickly decided to take the path of physician-assisted suicide. Being in the stoplight with her powerful story, it opened up many ethical debates on what I quickly realized was a touchy subject. Strong viewpoints surround this topic; some supported it and wanting to legalize it, saying it is the right to the individual, while others were against it saying it’s an act of murder by the doctors who supported and helped. However, many confuse the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide, with the difference

When faced with a terminal illness or severe depression people look for a way out. Rather than let these people some European countries and a few states have legalized the use of euthanasia, or assisted suicide. Euthanasia is a procedure that medical officials follow, where they pump the ailing patient full of drugs that firsts put them into a coma and then they die peacefully. Patients in these select countries and states that are beyond helping or severely depressed utilize the euthanasia as either a means to an end or a way to die on their terms.

As patients come closer to the end of their lives, certain organs stop performing as well as they use to. People are unable to do simple tasks like putting on clothes, going to the restroom without assistance, eat on our own, and sometimes even breathe without the help of a machine. Needing to depend on someone for everything suddenly brings feelings of helplessness much like an infant feels. It is easy to see why some patients with terminal illnesses would seek any type of relief from this hardship, even if that relief is suicide. Euthanasia or assisted suicide is where a physician would give a patient an aid in dying. “Assisted suicide is a controversial medical and ethical issue based on the question of whether, in certain situations,

Brittany Maynard was 29 when she was diagnosed with a malignant terminal brain tumor. Her doctor gave her six months to live. She had the option to undergo full body radiation treatment that would have lengthened her life but would have left her in constant pain while she withered away. She consciously made the decision that she wished to die on her own terms and moved from California to Oregon where physician-assisted suicide has been legalized. In the early morning hours of a chilly November morning, Brittany took a cocktail of drugs prescribed by her physician. She was surrounded by those she loved and died with the dignity that she wanted. Human euthanasia, although controversial, is a humane way to end a person's life, it can be administered voluntary, involuntarily, or passively.

It has been argued that for people on life support systems and people with long standing diseases causing much pain and distress, euthanasia is a better choice. It helps in relieving them from pain and misery. In cases like terminal cancers when the patient is in much pain and when people associated with them also are put through a lot of pain and misery, it is much more practical and humane to grant the person his/her wish to end his/her own life in a relatively painless and merciful way.

Euthanasia or assisted suicide is the practice of intentionally ending someone’s life to alleviate his or her pain. The article “Terminally Ill Brittany Maynard Takes Her Own Life Under Oregon Law” explains the case of a woman with terminal brain cancer who decided to change of state to obtain medical assistance to end her life. In the United States, there are just few states that are not against physician aid with dying (PAD), which is the reason why the Maynard had to relocate from California to Oregon. It is important to emphasize that this case occurred in 2014, when euthanasia was still illegal in the state of California. Many in the country criticized Maynard’s decision; this indicates that choosing when and how to die, regardless of

Euthanasia is the intentional and painless ending of life for animals that are suffering from an incurable disease. In small animals is performed by an injection into the vein of an agent consequently ending in the death of the pet. When an animal is euthanized they become unconscious which is firstly followed by respiratory arrest and then cardiac arrest. If there are no cardiovascular defects in the animal generally within 30 seconds of unconsciousness cardiac arrest will occur. – © 2014 Veterinary Nurse Solutions Pty Ltd Version 1.1 page 140 of 155