Who Is Being Terminally Wrong?

Every individual has dignity. Even dignity in death. Death is not something anyone is ready for, but when it is inevitable, a person can prepare themselves to perish with their dignity still intact. People who become terminally ill, sometimes experience a sense of physical indignation. They become a total dependent on others. Occasionally, people also have an occurrence of emotional indignation. They become incensed with not only themselves but with others as well. Their needs reflect upon everyone else, resulting in the patient feeling

A person should have the right to choose what medical interventions he or she would or would not have implemented in a life threatening situation, but euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (PAS) does not align with the code of ethics that health care providers are sworn to and, therefore, should not be practiced. Research has shown that only a fraction of individuals who qualify for end-of-life (EOL) care options, such as hospice, have heard about what options are available to them. Patients who seek out interventions such as euthanasia and PAS only do so because they feel that it is the only thing that will end their suffering. If such individuals were well informed about just how comprehensive, individualized, and effective EOL services such as hospice can be, euthanasia and PAS would quickly move down on the list of possibilities. We must, as a society, strive to inform and encourage those suffering with terminal illness, not simply end suffering by ending life itself.

Close your eyes and imagine the person you care about most. Now, imagine them in great pain, suffering because of sickness. There is nothing you or any doctor can do because you have tried everything. The only thing left is to wait and watch them suffer until they die. You would do anything to free them from their pain, but again, there is nothing left to do. Unless there is. Euthanasia is a medical drug that ends a terminally or chronically ill person’s life in a controlled, comfortable way. Would you want to watch a loved one suffer until they die or allow them to rid their pain quickly? Or if you were in this position, would you want the option of death? The United States should legalize euthanasia because the strict criteria

A patient with terminally ill disease being in critical stage may be suffering from immense about of pain each day of their life. They have the right to request euthanasia that completely ends that suffering. Euthanasia is the painless killing of an patient with incurable disease or painfully disease. In an article by Vinod Sinha, he explains what euthanasia is used for and how exactly it works. He states, "the intent is to end the patient’s life, while in the administration of pain medications that may also hasten death; the intent is to relieve suffering." The intent of those medication is to help relive patient's suffering which is what the patient desires. The pain each day the patient suffers from helps motivate him or her to accept the option to proceed with assisted suicide or euthanasia. Because euthanasia is painless, patients would prefer to die painlessly rather than dying painfully due to their terminal disease. And as basic human rights, the patient has the right to request a painless death to relive the suffering and

Another argument is that people connote the word “terminal ill.” Even though people might have a chance to survive, they still want to choose euthanasia to take away their pain. Marker, the author of “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Should Not be Legal” explains “Jack Kevorkian…said that a terminal illness was ‘any disease that curtails life even for a day.’” To further explain this quote, what it means is that you might be dying one day, but chances of living the next is very high. For example, if you get into a freak accident and you are paralyze, they can immediately euthanize you because they think you cannot make it the next day without your consent. The author further describes how a doctor can diagnose a patient with six months to live, but ten percent of the patients actually live longer than six months. There are many loopholes that people can use to terminate someone’s life via euthanasia.

However, as of February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided under certain conditions - which become null in 12 months, to allow someone who is ill and suffering to end their life (Stone, 2015). People, who are suffering from an incurable disease and are facing an inevitable death in their future, now have the right to die with dignity, which is a big achievement in the healthcare world. “People will have a choice” (Stone, 2015). Many people who are now suffering are relieved to hear that they now have a choice to die with dignity, rather than suffering until they die naturally.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide contend that terminally ill people should have the right to end their suffering with a quick, dignified, and compassionate death. Professor Mayur Lakhani, chair of the national council for palliative

“The hardest part of losing a loved one, isn’t having to say goodbye, but rather seeing them suffer from the pain”. Many individuals have not been able to answer the question: should terminally ill patients have the right to end their lives? Terminally ill patients should have a right to end their own lives with dignity rather than suffering from agony, because the pain is unbearable, families watch love one’s die slowly, and patients become extremely depressed.

Why are we allowed to be more humane to our pets than our parents? Physician-assisted suicide is a voluntary termination of one’s own life by administration of a lethal substance with direct or indirect assistance of a physician. Euthanasia is another term for this practice it provides a competent patient with a prescription for the patient to use with the primary intention of ending his or her own life. Compassion and Choices or Death with Dignity are names of supporters that promote euthanasia, also referred to as physician-assisted suicide, and believe that it is just as humane for terminally ill animals as it is for people. I too agree that it should be legally and morally open for choice to anyone suffering from a terminal

When a person chooses to die when and how they want it, they are simply exercising their right to die. The terminally ill person avoid excruciating pain and decides a timely and pain free death. Controversial as it may sound, the person suffering from a terminal illness is already physically and mentally suffering and either way they are going to die in a certain amount of time. Dying is considered a human right and it’s only fair to let the dying person exercise this last right.

Euthanasia is one of the most historically debated, discussed topics in medicine, law and ethics. Doctors, religious, lawyers and relatives of terminally ill patients, leave testimonials that make us reflect on the topic. Right to die with dignity or live with pain and suffering? A question that we do ask when we live experiences of loved ones who suffer daily pain, having an undeserving life.

Death is one of the few inevitable events in life; it’s something everybody must face in their lifetime. Many fear it but for some, it’s an opportunity to embrace freedom and tranquility from their suffering. For the terminally-ill, they want to liberate themselves from their illness but modern medicine, sometimes, can only reduce their pain to a certain degree and others want to have the right to die. Doctors trying to salvage their patients’ lives could possibly cause more harm than giving them what the patients’ wants, Death. As medical professionals, they abide to do no harm to their patients, to only reduce their pain and cope with their suffering but it’s damaging them even more. The last option for many terminally-ill patient is to die and allow medical professionals to help them, which is considered Euthanasia. The practice of Euthanasia should be legalized and provided in the United States as a last resort for the terminally-ill.

Terminal illness is a very devastating and sad part of life. Every day thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer, brain tumors, and life threatening diseases. The physicians taking care of these individuals try their best to care for them, offering chemotherapy treatments, radiation, and different medications to treat these illnesses, but unfortunately, they are not always effective. Sometimes the illness just takes over and the patient no longer has a chance to live. They are just lying in a hospital bed, suffering, waiting for their inevitable end at the hands of their disease. In these instances, many patients would beg their family and doctors to just let them die because they were in unspeakable agony. In these instances, Euthanasia

The stories of Don and Iris Flounders and of Carol Ferry reflect this opinion and show first hand experiences of people choosing euthanasia during a period of terminal illness. Don Flounders was diagnosed with mesothelioma and so him and his wife, with the help of a doctor who was a euthanasia advocate, went to Mexico, purchased Nembutal(commonly used to euthanize animals) and both ended their lives a few years later. In a video that they took in the moments before their death they mentioned that they wanted to die on their own terms and that they didn’t like the fact that they had to travel so far to end their own lives (Healey 38). Carol Ferry was diagnosed with emphysema along with a tumor in her chest and pelvis that caused her to be terminally ill and she too believed that she should have the right to die on her own conditions and with the help of others and ended up ending her own life sometime after this article was written (Ferry). Although neither of these people are specialists in the area of euthanasia or medicine, having a personal experience with terminal illness and ending their own lives gives them some form of credibility to speak on this subject. Both of these people make a valid point in saying that there is "no virtue in suffering" as Ferry says it

Patients who are diagnosed with a terminally ill conditions suffer agonizing pain. Patients are denied the right to die, and although euthanasia is controversial and considered unethical, instead of physicians denying them the right to die they should seek alternatives to alleviate their patients suffering. Often times conflicts arise between physicians, patients and family members about what constitutes appropriate care. Physicians are instrumental in providing care at the end of one’s life, therefore, they should provide patients and families with optional methods for treatment, provide sufficient information on the prognonosis of the treatment as well as the risks associated. The concerns around euthanasia consist of what is morally acceptable;