eusthasia
...e of your life. This leads to my first major point. Body 1. Through medical science we are now able to prolong human life and sometimes this prolonging can lead to people living straight into misery. Also think about the emotional suffering the patient must go through. A person who has a terminal illness has to look at their family and friends everyday and painfully realize that he or she only has so long to live. There will only be a couple more weeks or months to spend time with the people that person loves. What could be more depressing and cruel? It’s the doctors duty to relieve pain and suffering for the patients. 2. Many are against euthanasia because it seems morally and religiously wrong. Killing is wrong in all of its forms, so it can’t possibly be acceptable to help someone who is sick to die. Those against the issue feel God is the one and only chooser. He alone decides who lives and dies. But isn’t it true that keeping patients alive on machines is completely artificial. God may have called for this person’s time, but still the patient is kept alive by man-made machines. No moral argument should be made. It is not about what is right or wrong. The fact is that a person is sick and suffering and nobody should be arguing if the patient is allowed to die or not. That is not the issue. It is about the patient’s wishes. Morally conflicted people can look at this, if a member of their family were suffering, would they want to keep them alive and breathing by machines? If healthcare professionals were allowed to assist patients with taking his or her life, then people would be allowed to determine their own destiny and worth. More important so, terminally ill patients could have an alternative choice available to them when their pain is becoming unbearable. The point is that they should be allowed to decide for themselves, when they are conscious, or are incapable of deciding for themselves. Then their families and doctors can decide on their behalf. 3. Euthanasia is central to the liberty protected by the fourteenth amendment. If a patient feels he or she is deteriorated to the point of misery or meaninglessness then the government entity or medical facility should not force that person to go on living. Again, every human being of adult years has the right to decide what should be done with his or her body. This also applies to terminally ill patients who are especially in need of choices. They are at a situation in which they must be allowed to decide for themselves. Otherwise, it would be unconstitutional to deny them the freedom of choice in which everybody else has. It would be a crime to deny them this right because they are at the mercy of other people. Doctors and hospitals and sometimes the law itself deny a lot of terminally ill patients who wish to end their suffering by death. Euthanasia is in the hands of the person who is sick. It should not be determined by anyone how long a person has to suffer. How could a law forbidding euthanasia include every instance? It is not possible for those who think it is morally wrong to understand what that patient is feeling, and it is most certainly not their li...