Maynard On Euthanasia

Matthew Paris explains in his article “Soon We Will Accept That Useless Lives Should End,” published in the Spectator, that dying is not a desire for the patients with a terminal illness. Terminally ill patients end their life because they did not receive pleasure from the life that they had. Pleasure was taken away in their lives when the pain and suffering took over. Patients who are labeled with a terminal illness lose their quality of life quick. There are many cases in which patients would much rather choose an assisted death over living in pain. In Brittany Maynard’s article, she describes the suffering that she endured in her battle with brain cancer. Even though Brittany’s cancer was labeled terminal, she still had many surgeries. When given her prognosis of six months, she knew her quality of life would rapidly diminish. She went through with physician assisted suicide for many reasons, one of them being that she did not want to suffer anymore. The same article displays a perfect reasoning as to how physician assisted suicide ends suffering for the patient. Brittany Maynard chose physician assisted suicide to escape the pain and suffering that she would soon face. Having full brain radiation would leave her scalp with first-degree burns. Even if Brittany chose hospice care, the tumor developing in her brain would eat away at her mind and she

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.

Brittany Maynard stated in an article she wrote on CNN, “Having this choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a tumultuous time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain (Maynard, Brittany).” Since Brittany Maynard had gotten her prescription of euthanasia knowing that she could use it at any point she felt a sense of calm at the end of her life and felt that she could now die with dignity. The rest of her life didn’t have to be painful. Since she did have a terminal brain disease she had spent most of the last year of her life in tremendous pain, and once Brittany is refused treatment, she felt relieved. In contrast to Brittany’s story is the story of a woman named Pam Parlanti. This woman had unendurable arthritis pain near the end of her life and could barely get out of bed. Although she requested multiple times to die, her body held on for 11 days after her request and she died angry that others should have control over how she wanted to die (Parlanti, Steve). The story of Mrs. Parlanti proves that without the right to have voluntary doctor assisted suicide people will be forced to suffer for the remainder of their life even though the quality of their life is immensely poor. Family members watch their loved ones deteriorate this

Euthanasia is the practice of ending one’s life who is in a position of having an incurable illness in order to stop their suffering and die peacefully at their request. When a patient who fits the

Euthanasia has become a controversial subject. It is a Greek word, that means easy death, broken down into origins EU means "good" and Thanatos means death. Therefore, this word also means good death. Euthanasia's definition is the intentional termination of life by another at the explicit request of the person who dies. This implies that the act must be initiated by the person who wishes to commit suicide. (Euthanasia)

The most valid argument in the favor of Brittany Maynard’s decision comes from the Ethics of Care moral theory. According to Ethics of Care, an ideal society is the one in which a person cares for others and also expects to be cared. Clearly, Brittany does not feel the caring from others because she needs to end her pain, and the only possible way of doing this is active euthanasia. In addition, her decision also seems to be in accordance with utilitarianism because it certainly leads to the greatest happiness for her, which is ending an extreme pain.

Having to endure an illness is unbearably painful. It is torture what these patients have to endure, so the least they should be given is the choice to end the pain with physician-assisted suicide. According to Victoria Cavaliere, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old married woman, was suffering from a glioblastoma brain tumor; she decided to end her life using physician-assisted suicide. Maynard was young; before cancer appeared, she had a full life ahead of her with her husband, but the pain cancer would cause her was going to be too much to endure. It is clear that she didn’t choose to die because of depression or any other reasons many like to bring up. Maynard was willing to give up her life in order to avoid reaching the stage where the pain would be too much. Because of Oregon’s assisted suicide law, Maynard was able to choose the last day of her life and was able to say goodbye to her loved ones in

According Eyder Peralta, an author of NPR, 29 year old Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor. She had favored a peaceful death over living for a few months longer because she did not want to deteriorate in hospital care for the rest of those months and have her family watch. So she traveled from California to Oregon to get a prescription from a physician to end her life since it was illegal back in 2014. Before her death, Maynard was a huge advocate and believed that “The freedom is in the choice. If the DWD is unappealing to anyone for any reason, they can simply choose not to avail themselves of it”. It gives patients like Brittany Maynard to have autonomy from their illnesses and a way to leave peacefully. I hope that one day all states in the United States would be considerate enough of the ill like Brittany Maynard to pass the “die with dignity”

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), cancer, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease are just some of the illnesses millions of people are diagnosed with every day.  These diseases and many other afflictions have the potential to cause extreme pain and suffering to individuals.  Each person who has a terminal illness knows that death is inevitable.  Knowing this fact, the afflicted are torn between the decision of letting the disease take its course or opting for euthanasia.  Derek Humphrey, a founder of the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization, gives an accurate definition of the word euthanasia, "The word 'euthanasia' comes from the Greek-eu, "good," and thanatos, "death.  Literally, "good death"

Euthanasia is when a patient suffering from a disease that cannot be cured is helped to die in a painless manner. Doctors help in such cases to kill patients without feeling much pain. It is an activity the permits the hopeless and injured people to die painlessly with reasons of mercy towards their suffering. Euthanasia is a Greek name that means easy death to individuals. The translation into the English dictionary has given the word the same meaning by Francis Bacon describing the mode of death as “after the fashion and the semblance of a kind & pleasant sleep.” The same meaning of attaining a painless death defines the word. In the medical field, Euthanasia is defined as a way of

As a help the Terminal Illness, "Terminal Illness" we hear this word, feel that it is very serious for symptoms. The torment of the patient in the Terminal Illness, there are several symptoms such as physical body decreases rapidly until not able to help themselves. (Walia & Ivneet K,2010) present arguments to emphasize that The euthanasia is, therefore a choice that terminally patients can choose while the patient is conscious, then also resourceful because they do not want to suffer from the illness that to confront. For example, (Brittany M,2014) notes that Brittany Maynard, she lived in Portland, Oregon (USA). She exercised euthanasia because of malignant brain tumor Doctors offer full brain radiation, which she rejected because they know

Euthanasia is the act or practice, killing of permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy killing. Far more controversial, active euthanasia involves causing the death of a person through a direct action. In response to a request from the person. Euthanasia itself been around for as long as the history of medicine. This euthanasia is enormous and have long history in the United States.

The Term Euthanasia has descended from Greek mythology meaning “Good Death” today Euthanasia refers to the termination of one’s life to end their suffering from an incurable or terminal disease (Ebrahimi, 2012).

For example, Brittany Maynard was a terminally ill patient who found peace with euthanasia. She was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 29 and there was no effective treatment to save her life. Without euthanasia, Maynard would have to wait to die in hospice care. She told CNN, “I could develop potentially morphine- resistant pain and suffer personality changes and verbal, cognitive and motor loss of virtually any kind. Because the rest of my body is young and healthy, I am likely to physically hang on for a long time even though cancer is eating my mind. I probably would have suffered in hospice care for weeks or even months. And my family would have had to watch that” (Maynard). For many terminally ill patients, their quality of life is very low, and they begin to lose their ability to move or communicate. Even with painkillers, there is still suffering. After months of slow deterioration of the mind, the patient would be nothing but a body. Euthanasia provides the opportunity to die as a full human being and to skip weeks or months of suffering. Maynard found peace in not only the option to die with dignity, but the choice. She wrote, “Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice? That I deserve to suffer for weeks or months in tremendous amounts of physical and emotional pain? Why should anyone have the right to make that choice for me?...Having this choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a tumultuous time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain” (Maynard). Although the illness is a death sentence, euthanasia is a way to decide when, how, and where the patient dies, giving the patients some much sought-after

Euthanasia is Greek for "easy or happy death" and implies measures deliberately taken by a physician to curtail pain and suffering. This concept has been enlarged to include such action in incurable diseases, especially those in which the patient must endure torment and extreme pain