Thursday, September 1, 2016

Euthanasia

Euthanasia should be allowed
Euthanasia is an act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person suffering from an incurable condition.
Euthanasia saves life
In the Netherlands, "a study of euthanasia found that 0.4% of all euthanasia was done without consent from the patient. The study was done when euthanasia had been legalized in the Netherlands. Now another study, which was done before euthanasia was legalized, indicated that 0.8% of euthanasia done in the Netherlands was done without the patient's consent." This shows that the legalization of euthanasia actually had the reverse of the expected effect. The number of euthanasia done decreased by half after the euthanasia was legalized.
Euthanasia is properly regulated
Developed nations like the Netherlands have legalized euthanasia and have hardly ever had problems. "Any law or system can be abused, but that law and the system can always be refined to prevent such abuse from happening". Therefore, euthanasia will be better with regulation.
Euthanasia does no harm to others
There are ideas supporting and conflicting euthanasia. The conflict leads the government to consider the rights of people that are violated when euthanasia is applied. That being said, euthanasia as a choice infringes on no such fundamental rights. Assisted suicide involves direct harm and the termination of life only to the individual who has requested it. One cannot request euthanasia for another person. Therefore, euthanasia does no harm to others.
People have right to die
Anti-euthanasia proponents argue that euthanasia infringes on a person’s fundamental right to live. What they fail to see is that our “life” as human beings implies death. Without death, we do not have “human life” by its very definition. Therefore, people who argue that every man has the fundamental right to live, they also agree that every man has the fundamental right to die. At the end, people have the right to die, and euthanasia should be allowed.

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