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First of all, I will read you a Scenario to just think about, your wife of 35 years is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal disease. She lies in a bed, motionless and unaware of her surroundings. The medication to ease her pain has been wearing off. She just lies in pain and unable to communicate with the outside world. The doctors give her a month to live at the most. What would you do? Would you let her sit in a hospital bed in agonizing pain for the last few months of her life, or do you help to prematurely meet her God? That is the topic of discussion in this oral: Euthanasia. Let’s start by defining the term. Euthanasia is referred to as “mercy killing.” That is the killing of someone for his or her own good due to the pain and suffering they are enduring. Euthanasia also includes situations where the individual who is suffering makes the decision to die a type of suicide actually. In today’s world there are two types of euthanasia that are most common. The first are people who, perhaps because of serious illness or perhaps for reasons unrelated to their illness, are extremely depressed and say that they want to die. Research has shown that the vast majorities of these people are just asking for sympathy and don’t really want to die but rather hear the calls of there loved ones begging them not to go on with the procedure. They want the attempt to fail. The second type of euthanasia involves people who are suffering from an illness that makes them unable to communicate. These types of people are those who are in comas, paralysed, or simply so sick that they cannot make meaning full sounds or other communications. This is a much more accepted type of euthanasia. Especially in the Netherlands where Euthanasia is more common then the United States. There are two sides to attack this issue from. One is from the view of the Catholic Church and the other from a legal standpoint. Lets start with the legal standpoint. Who has the right to tell us when or when cannot die? Many feel that we have the right to do whatever we want to our bodies because they are our personal property. It is our inalienable right to do whatever we like to ourselves. They have a point since it all goes back to how we formed our nation. We formed it on individual rights that we modelled after the ideas of Rousseau before the French Revolution. Pro-Euthanasia people are also believe that anyone should have the right to turn away from medical treatment if he believes that the side-effects, whether pain of the burden of being tied to some machine or whatever, are worse then the disease. Even if this means he will live a shorter life. Pro-euthanasia activists also believe that if someone is in their right mind and honestly wants to end his life to the pain he is suffering he could have the right to do so. A completely different way to view this is through the eyes of the Catholic Church. The church is very much against the idea of euthanasia. Although the church recognizes the fact that there is now law of any state of religion that says we must stay alive at any cost, they still say we don't not have the right to die at our own will. Many believe that we own our bodies to the fullest extent. This is not true when relating to Church. According to our belief, we have been given our bodies and life as a sacred gift from God and that we have absolutely no right tampering with when we are to die.
Approximate Word count = 2453
Approximate Pages = 9.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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