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Why Do Doctors Continue To Legalize Euthanasia?

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Euthanasia it is something that can be controversial with many religious group or other people who don’t believe in assisted suicide. Some say that it is a crime to help with assisted suicide and should be illegalized. With regard to Euthanasia, I believe that doctors should be able to help their patience in accosted suicide in only major cases. Such as if a patience has a terminal disease, it is in the Hippocratic Oath of doctors, it doesn’t make life shorter for the person who takes the path of euthanasia, and that it is optional it is not required if you have a terminal disease. Imagine you were born into this world with a terminal disease or that you have been living a healthy life style but one day you get a terminal disease. You are …show more content…

One of the most cited things from it is the iconic saying “Do no harm”. From that Dr. Ken Murray said is that do doctors do more harm to their patients if they let them suffer from their terminal illness rather than ending their life so that they won’t experience any more pains? He makes a valid point their about since the oath does say that doctors should do no harm. Since they have to look which will cause the patient more harm. To either end their life to end their suffering or let them keep on living with the terminal disease that they have. Of course it would be simple if you kept the patient alive with the terminal disease alive you would be doing more harm to the patient. Since you letting them live even though they are experiencing pain or other things. If you were to let them die they you would do less harm since you would have let ended their suffering of their disease. In this case the Hippocratic Oath supports euthanasia since doctors would be doing less harm to their patients by helping them die rather them letting them live with a terminal …show more content…

For example in 1991 there was a study done by the Dutch to see about how long a person would last if they were not euthanize, their report? It was found that when they were euthanized it was found that they were only cut out of life for about one more week. That not much if you think about it what would they be doing in one week they are terminally ill so it would be almost impossible for them to do anything in those last days of. Also the pain that they must still over come in order for their death to come. So no if people were euthanize it would only be cutting their life by about a week which isn’t that much, it is like one more week till they have to suffer until they will no longer suffer in this

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