Persuasive Essay On Euthanizing Healthy Animals

Doctors are whom people delegate their lives to when there is something wrong with their health. Death is perhaps the most personal, intimate event of any time. One may believe suffering towards the end of death should be avoided with Euthanasia. Various sources disapprove of the legalization of euthanasia. I believe that all people deserve the right to die in natural timing.

The euthanasia of animals is a very problematic social issue in the world today. Approximately there are about 7.6 million companion animals that enter animal shelters each year. Of those, about 2.7 animals are euthanized, and cats have the highest rate, according to “The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” (2017). When you hear the term euthanasia in reference to animals, you think of a painless process that ends the countless suffering your pet had to endure over the span of their lives. There are many reasons for which these animals are “put to sleep.” When most pet owners put their pets to sleep it is because their pets have incurable disease, painful illness, behavioral problems and are of old age. When an animal is suffering and is no longer able to recover, this process may be the most humane thing to do. However, euthanasia turns into murder when perfectly healthy animals are killed. Since there is an overpopulation of animals there are many animals left on the street wandering alone. When there isn’t any room for all these new animals being brought in from off the streets, shelters have no other option, but to euthanize. Each year more and more dogs and cats are born and sent into shelters, but for every animal being born another one has to leave and once the animal leave they are most likely going to be euthanized. No matter the situation animals are losing their lives for no clear reason.

Animal shelters provide protection and care to animals in need, but sadly have to kill animals from time to time. Ending an animal’s life with minimal pain is called animal euthanasia. No animal shelters practice euthanasia by choice, but most consider it a necessary system. Some reasons for euthanasia are lack of resources and funding in shelters, but the biggest contributor to why euthanasia exists is overcrowding. This problem can be traced to owners allowing their pets to have multiple litters of kittens or puppies without taking the responsibility to properly give them a home. This carelessness creates a huge domestic overpopulation problem. The consequences of overpopulation results in large numbers of animals being sent to humane societies. Animals are then euthanized to avoid overcrowding. Euthanasia is unethical and cruel; it should be banned from shelters.

I pulled up in Joe’s yard and to this day, do not regret leaving with a “stinking pit bull”. His driveway was a gravel, dusty drive, you could hear “pop, pop, pop!”- from the pointy gravel connecting with the tires. When I finally arrived to the house (which seemed like an eternity), his back yard looked like a prison yard. There was nothing but galvanized, chain link fence fortifying the whole perimeter of his backyard. The aroma I was smelling was somewhat like a dog pound mixed with animal feces. Out of the blue, “Tank”, one of Joe’s own pit bulls, awaken from his nap and decided to grace me with his beast-like appearance. Then, from a dog house in the yard that matched the prison- like vibe I was already gathering; with planks hanging down and missing shingles on the roof- arose this malicious, merciless looking animal with four legs and a wagging

Many people also believe that when a person puts down their pet that means that they don’t love their pet anymore. Pet owners who chose to euthanize their pets for the right reasons, don’t want to see their pet suffer and be in pain. Owners who chose to euthanize their animals because they want their pet to die with dignity, little to no pain, and with happiness. Euthanasia is a fast and peaceful procedure for a pet, regardless of where it is performed. A pet is made as comfortable as possible. A nurse or other qualified assistant will typically help hold your pet. In the event that the pet owner is present for the euthanasia, it is usually possible for that person to continue to stroke, talk to and comfort their pet. The veterinarian will remove a patch of fur on one of your pet’s legs over the sight of a blood vessel (vein).The veterinarian may then place an intravenous catheter or cannula into the vein and check that it is working fine by flushing some saline solution through the catheter. Rather than placing an intravenous catheter, a veterinarian may instead elect to inject the euthanasia solution directly from a syringe with a needle into the vein. The use of a sedative is recommended during euthanasia.The veterinarian administers the euthanasia solution through the intravenous catheter. The euthanasia solution contains a drug called pentobarbital that used to be used as a general anaesthetic

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.

Eager, excited, and ready to play Max the 6 month old puppy waits patiently for his new owner. Max waits and waits day in and day out to meet his forever family still excited and eager. The fifth day Max is sure he is going home with his very own family, a kennel worker puts him in a metal crate and took off his old plastic collar he is now certain he is going home. The kennel worker took Max through the huge double doors into a cold dim room the kennel worker then places him on a cold steel table. Max now knows he is not going home with his forever family today. Clueless of what is about to happen to him he waits anxious and afraid of what the future has to come, finally a vet steps in and Max knew something was wrong. The vet sticks a needle into his paw and after several agonizing minutes for little Max he was dead and disposed of like a piece of garbage just because he was in the shelter for too long.

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,

Envision one of your family members being diagnosed with end-stage cancer that has spread throughout their entire body. They are helplessly suffering from pain that cannot be controlled with any type of treatment or pain medications. Meanwhile your cousin has been watching her father slowly die and lose all quality of life. While some doctors believe that assisted suicide is morally wrong, it is the right way to end the pain and suffering of terminal illnesses in certain situations. If that family member could have been given the option of assisted suicide, they wouldn’t have to go through so much unnecessary suffering and they could die with dignity.

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.

In the United States, the euthanasia of animals is very common. There are no laws against this practice in most states, and there are many different ways the process is carried out. One of these ways is a injection of lethal doses of medication that are given to an animal by a licensed physician. An animal is “put to sleep” and feels little to no pain at all. Another type of euthanasia for animals is a carbon monoxide chamber. This particular task is primarily

Opposing to turning over our research facility to the army so they could euthanize the animals would be more beneficial than euthanizing the animals. If we consider the option to let the army euthanize the animals the chance of the virus spreading further would cease to exist or lessen the spreading. Although the animals would be euthanized, the human population would still be fine. People would no longer be at risk of getting the virus, there would no longer be a possible threat made by this virus to the human population. In an article, it states how dangerous it can be for us, “Recently, this super strain made headlines by causing potentially serious infections in schools in at least six states. At least three student deaths were reported

Why is it that when we see a disabled person, we tend to feel pity and sometimes consider than inferior than rest of the people whom we in society connote as normal. Disability is often defined in a Foucauldian perception of being a social construct rather than the actual disability which is the lack of ability which can relate to physical and mental imparity to the norms. Utilising interpretivism epistemology and an empiricism perspective, this essay shall explore disability social perception, the facilities provided, euthanasia and government regulations in a contrast between Australia and the United Kingdom.

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.

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.