euthanasia
... been diagnosed with an illness as one such as AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, or Multiple Sclerosis. Euthanasia is known as the termination of life by a doctor at the patient’s request. The request from the patient to the doctor must be voluntary, carefully considered, and it must have been made repeatedly. Most important the patients suffering must be unbearable and without any hope for improvement. Pain medication that doctors administrate may shorten a person’s life and in other countries is considered a medical decision in terminal care and not as Euthanasia. In America Euthanasia has been challenged by constitutional laws against assisted suicide. Through out North America, committing suicide or attempting to commit suicide is not longer considered a criminal offense. On the other hand, helping another person commit suicide is a criminal act. Oregon is the only exception to this rule by allowing people who are terminally ill to get a lethal prescription from their physician. This is the only type of Euthanasia allowed in the state. Physicians are prohibited from inducing death by injection or by carbon monoxide like Dr. Kevorkain did.. Sometimes you will hear people refer to Euthanasia as “to kevork.” This comes from the name of Dr. Kevorkian. He assisted with the deaths of hundreds of patients. Kevorkian is a retired pathologist who has been viewed worldwide for helping 130 people die. This obitiatrist believes the continued denial of a good death to doomed human beings is a step backward. Another step backwards is his recent conviction of second degree murder and is an inhuman decision for the suffering and the dying around the world. I find this appalling that people are being so selfish to the dying and their families and feel that it is definitely a step backwards in medical advancement. After my sister was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of nine months she suffered until she eventually died at the age of 5 from malnutrition due to her brain tumor. She was taken to many children hospitals and had undergone plenty of surgeries but nothing could be done. Her brain tumor was so severe that when they went in to try and remove the cancerous tissue her brain was like apple sauce and it would only be a matter of time for her to live. They gave my parents the option of taking her home or keeping her in the hospital on machines and feeding tubes and getting radiation. They told my parents that by giving her the radiation it would only prolong her life and she would never recover. My parents being young and just married decided that they were not going to give up on her and that there was some chance that she could survive and decided on the radiation. After six months of no signs of improvement my parents then thought long and hard and the only thing they could think of was bringing her home and letting her be comfortable and be around them all the time. They would take turns holding her all day and all night. They would also take turns reading to her and playing games with her. But eventually the tumor spread throughout her brain and she was losing all her senses. Her eye sight was going and she could no longer eat anymore and not much time had passed until she slipped into a coma and died in my parents arms at our house. She suffered ever since she was born and now when my parents look back they would have given anything in the world to end her pain rather than be selfish and make her suffer just cause they couldn’t let her go. Til this day every time we talk about her they get tears and picture her tiny fragile body wilting away in their arms. They will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. Maybe if people would look at Euthanasia in this light, some would change their minds about making a decision about someone they love, especially their own child. Although I was not alive yet, just by hearing my parents and seeing how har...