Persuasive Essay On Euthanasia

In 1994, physician-assisted suicide became legal in Oregon which was the only state during that time. Physician-assisted suicide, also euthanasia, is when a physician provides a patient with the medical means or the medical knowledge to commit suicide. Particular words are so sensitive that individuals across the world are still, to this day, attempting to delete the Death with Dignity Act. The notion legalizing assisted suicide frightens citizens; however, they do not know how the patient feels. Laws like this should be used to open the minds of citizens who believe that physician-assisted dying is morally wrong and help patients in pain. Patients with a terminal illness should be allowed assisted suicide because their organs can be used freely to save another's life, they can pass knowing it was their choice, and it can decrease the hospital costs of the patients.

The definition of euthanasia from the Oxford Dictionary is: “The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or is in an incurable coma.” Consider the words “suffering,” “painful,” “irreversible” and “incurable.” These words describe a patients terrible conditions and prospects. Euthanasia is known as “mercy killing” for a reason, it is the most, humane, moral and logical form of treatment available to patients that have no hope in fully recovering. If you had to choose between lying in bed dying a slow and painful death, or dying a quick painless death at the time you choose so that you can be surrounded by all your loved ones, which would you choose? With euthanasia,

Assisted suicide is when the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, affected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose. It’s a personal decision and no one should make that decision for them. It’s their life and they should be able to decide what to do with it.

Euthanasia is typically undertaken when an extremely sick person has lost the will to live and is terminated to alleviate them from their suffering. The idea of physician assisted suicide has sparked a debate on the ethical, economical, and social consideration of the act. As we approach a time where physician assisted suicide becomes more and more politically and ethically charged, lawmakers, physicians, and the public alike need to understand autonomy and respect the natural functionings of the human body, even if the patient or the family of the patient asks for euthanasia. Therefore, due to ethical and economical considerations, euthanasia should be outlawed throughout the United States.

Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from a terminal illness. When most people bring upon this subject it opens a very broad debate. It could easily be seen in both a negative way and positive way. Some people see it as more of murder and morally incorrect, but some view it as a way to keep someone from suffering until their death. There are ways to cure colds, fevers, broken bones, etc. but for those who are terminally ill, have to live in pain and agony knowing it won’t get better. Despite plentiful hard evidence to the contrary, the same way we have the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, we should have to right to death. Also, government shouldn’t be able to define our end-of-life decisions, or our bodily choices. Lastly, keeping the patient alive costs more money and emotional distress than to keep them suffering with no hope of getting better.

Everyone has experienced an extreme pain at some point in their life. This pain could be physical or emotional; but could you imagine being told you have to live with that pain until you die that could be days, months, or years from now? What if you were then told that you were going to die soon from that pain? Would you choose physician assisted suicide (PAS) if you didn’t want to suffer anymore? Euthanasia is defined as the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or an irreversible coma. However, if it is what you want who should stand in your way; some of the states in the United States are legalizing this option. In order to make sure this option is the right one, there is a criterion the patient must meet as well as a few other protocols. If euthanasia is legal in some states, why shouldn’t it be legal in all and should it be legal in general? I believe it should be legal in all states.

“Certainly, suffering at the end of life is sometimes unavoidable and unbearable, and helping people end their misery may be necessary. Given the opportunity, I would support laws to provide these kinds of prescription to people.” (Atul Gawande) Euthanasia is a painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or an irreversible coma. In other words taking a deliberate action with the express intention of ending a life to relieve intractable suffering. (Christian Nordavist) Euthanasia or “mercy killing “should be legal in all states.

If you could decipher your death, how would you choose to die? How would that answer change if you were suffering? Euthanasia, also known as “good death,” is the act of putting a living thing to death painlessly or allowing them to die by withholding extreme medical practices, such as withholding food. Then there is involuntary euthanasia: “a competent person’s life is brought to an end despite an explicit rejection of euthanasia” as stated by Robert Young, the author of Medically Assisted Death. In the case of euthanasia, many people will argue that it is murder, but considering all the ways to die, it is one of the most humane ways to end a life.

When killing and letting die are connected to euthanasia, they are classified as “active” and “passive” euthanasia. Active euthanasia is causing death by actively quickening the process of ending a person's life, while passive euthanasia is the causation of death by not intervening and doing what is necessary for a person to continue living. An example of active euthanasia could be administering a dose of lethal injection, while passive could be something such as a doctor not giving a patient the medicine he or she needs to stay alive and sustain life. We must remember though, that in these circumstance, killing and letting die are in order to relieve someone's pain or suffering. Active and passive euthanasia are the two solutions for the three main categories of euthanasia: Voluntary, involuntary, and non voluntary Voluntary euthanasia is when the recipient

The debate over the use of euthanasia is ever growing. This is due to the fact of constant increases in medical advances. Medical advances are growing the number of medicines one can be given before palliative care is an option. The main concern of the debate is whether trying new treatments and medicines are necessary before palliative care is given. Two articles will be analyzed using the Aristotelian method. Both articles are valid, but the New York Times article written by Haider Javed Warraich offers a complete perspective using all three persuasive appeals compared to the article written by Terry Pratchett for The Guardian, which the majority is written on emotion.

We have the right to chose when we eat. We have the right to chose if we want to go out with friends or just stay home in PJ’s. Because we have the gift of free will, we have the freedom to chose what we want no matter the situation. If we are suffing and we know that we are going to die a slow and painful death, we have the right to chose otherwise. This option is known as euthanasia. Even though the church see’s it as a sin, murder, It is morally correct if the circumstances permit it. All forms of euthanasis should be legalized because their would be less stress on families with their hospital payments, less people suffering and in agony, and more freedom for humans.

Although a medical professional’s job is to save lives, they note the positives in euthanasia to end suffering. However, there could be other reasons. According to Soapboxie, some look at this decision as clearing up space, time, and money for those whose are capable of being saved (1). This is a horrible idea to even cross someone’s mind, but this thought comes around. No life should be taken to clear up time, space, or money. Even though the medical professionals may not directly come out and say this, the patient, in their vulnerable state, could look at it this way. Even though the process is long to attain assisted suicide, the patient may feel as if they must complete this action to stop themselves from being a burden. The patient must generate this decision on their own, but the shape they are in, could truly affect their decision, which is why numerous people find it wrong.

Dr. Elizabeth Trice Loggers, medical director of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance's Supportive and Palliative Care Service states, " “If you look at the way most Americans say they want to die, it is in their home, with their family members present, not in pain, and with their mental faculties intact.” (Aleccia, Jonel) Physician assisted suicide, also known as euthanasia, has been legalized in a few states across America. You never know when someone close to you will be given the choice of physician assisted suicide. Physician assisted suicide should be legalized in all states because health care costs can be reduced, the patients can die with dignity and it is not a sin.

How could one force a person to live in a state where they are no longer “living” their life? Imagine having a loved one that was in a coma, or in a state of mind where they cannot walk, feed or take care of themselves? Having them “live” in this state is a cruel and unruly punishment. Letting them pass is more effective than having their body hooked up to multiple machines. Euthanasia is an ethical way of letting one pass, because it is cruel punishment to let one suffer, not letting them pass is depriving them from their after life, and everyone deserves the right to choose.

A young boy endures a car wreck and is transported to an emergency hospital. There, he is declared brain dead. His mother decides to cut off all of his life support machines. However, the boy begins wiggling his toe moments before the withdrawal of his care and death can take place. In only a few weeks, he makes a tremendous recovery. If euthanasia had taken place, the boy would have not had the chance to wake up and be alive today. Although some people contend that euthanasia should be enacted in order to end suffering or pain; ultimately, euthanasia should not be an option and people should let their bodies shut down on their own.