Euthanasia

“Euthanasia as a Contradictory Issue”
Sometimes we get lucky, we have good health, and we live our life, accomplish our goals, grow old and die satisfied. Others times we are not so lucky. Somepeople get stuck with diseases in which they can’t cure. They suffer with debts and physical and emotional pain. Sometimes we grow up healthy but later end up with misfortune leaving them paralyzed,disable and/or in a vegetative state. We must ask ourselves what we would do in this position. Should Euthanasia meaning physician assisted suicide be an option? It is not only about saying yes or no todeath; this choice involves many legal and ethical arguments. This is controversial argument between the rights to die vs. the right to live, but because of certain views it becomes the right ofsuicide vs. the right to kill. Should we be given the right to choose between life and death, and should someone else be allowed to assist us in this choice? Every person should be responsible for his/herown live. Everyone should have all the freedom in deciding whether a suicide is the best option in that moment or not.
According to Professor Keown, “ Euthanasia rather narrowly as the active,intentional termination of a patient’s life by a doctor who thinks that death is a benefit to that patient”(397) The act of euthanasia is not accepting or declining to assisted death. There is far moreto it. There are many different kinds of euthanasia. Voluntary is the first type. This type of euthanasia is when a person request to be killed. The person voluntary ask to be killed, and it is theirsole choice. For example, if a person is in extreme pain for long time and medication does nothing, they might give up. If they have been in pain for a long time, and their illness is incurable, theymay no longer want to live. They request euthanasia. By dying they feel their suffering will finally end. Another type is non-voluntary. This type is when the patient’s life is deemed by others to...