Euthanaia; The Right To Die by Your Choice.
...eneration due? Well I’ll tell you that they weren’t required to make choices concerning the rightness and wrongness of “pulling the plug” as we do now. Imagine seeing your mother day after day suffering and in pain, just waiting to die. Yor mom covered with suction machines, oxygen tanks and tubes comming from every orifices of her body and she says “please, please help me die.” Just think about it. 2 Some Catholic moralists have shown some tolerance towards discontinuing or not using certain means to preserve life. They agree a man must use ordinary means to preserve life. Such as normal food, drinks, medicines, treatments and operations; which offer reasonable hope of benefit and can be obtained and used without excessive expense, pain or other inconveniences.3 Now picture someone from your family, lets say your dad this time and he is lying on the hospital bed with all the tanks and tubes hooked up to him so he can breath, and the doctor says he is brain dead. The doctor also says there is no way he will ever be able to breath on his own or feed himself and asks you if you want to turn off the machines that keep him alive or let him remain on the machines, knowing that it will cost thousands of dollars and he will never be the same again. Just think about it. Here is another example, this time it is of a cancer patient who is conscious and has developed a tolerance to pain-killing drugs so they give only brief relief and this patient will live for several weeks unless the doctor pulls the plug on the artificial respirator and removes the tubes. Some Catholic moralist would allow the discontinuance of these artificial aids since they are not useful means to save life.3 Prolonging life and prolonging dying are two completely different issues. When you prolong a life you are aiding that person to continue to live pain free. Prolonging dying is a prolonged torture full of pain until they die. What is a good death? “A good death is a happy death” John Stuart Mill. “A good death is a painless death” Jeremy Benthan. 3 After doing some research, I came across an interesting practice that ended in June 13, 2003. This practice was called the Hemlock Society USA which was the largest and oldest right-to-die organization in America fighting for voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide to be made legal for terminally and hopelessly ill adults. Hemlock's principal achievements during a stormy life were to: • Educate and advise thousands of dying people to know how to bring about their peaceful ends when dying, trapped in a ruined body...