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Pros And Cons Of Euthanasia And Physician Assisted Suicide

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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. In Belgium and the Netherlands, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has been legalized since 2002. They have some of the same laws and some very different. In Rurups et al.’s (2011) report of the first five years of euthanasia legislation in Belgium …show more content…

When a child is terminally ill and the parents have to watch them suffer that has to be one of the hardest things to do. When they all know their own child is never going to get better, you would rather see them not in pain. In the Netherlands children can legally go through euthanasia at the age of 12 where as in Belgium any age can. Shrivastava (2014) wrote about euthanasia in children in her article and how Belgium was the first country to let any age get euthanized. With that being said, they would only be able to if it is irreversible and that they are not going to get better, it is the child’s independent decision, and that it is finalized with the parent because they are underage (Shrivastava, 2011). They have to make sure it is the child's independent decision because they don’t want the parents to be pressuring them into it because they feel as if they are a burden already to the

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