Legalization of Euthanasia
An often controversial subject, should the act of euthanizing a terminally ill patient be legal for doctors in the United States? Is it breaking the code of a doctor to perform euthanasia? If it does become legal, should doctors have to perform it and grant their patients wishes? If it remains illegal, is it right, to deny the patient the right to end their life, when it is prolonging the inevitable of a painful death anyways. Doctors should be able to euthanize their terminally ill patients, only if the patient goes through and passes a set of requirements to be qualified for this kind of treatment. Doctors should be able to perform euthanasia for the same reasons they can perform risky lifesaving surgeries or even non …show more content…
One reason being the way the doctors look at it, and it being morally wrong to kill a patient when their oath is to help the patients live. Also, for a lot of terminally ill patients they feel like a burden to their family, because of all of the medical bills that come with being terminally ill, and also just the amount of care that someone in that state would need. They say that by legalizing it more people would choose it because of its easiness for themselves and their families. Also, like I said earlier the right to die would become a duty to die for some (Dowbiggin “A Merciful End:” ). Some studies have shown that it is taking away peoples will for recovery, to try and do the treatment, because death is a lot easier (Bruenig). Medical research has shown that by legalizing euthanasia, they believe it would give the people responsible for palliative care funding and research an easy out in that respect (Tonti-Filippini 715-717). Some people even give reasoning comparing euthanasia to the acts in Nazi Germany, saying it has the same disregard for life
An often controversial subject, should the act of euthanizing a terminally ill patient be legal for doctors in the United States? Is it breaking the code of a doctor to perform euthanasia? If it does become legal, should doctors have to perform it and grant their patients wishes? If it remains illegal, is it right, to deny the patient the right to end their life, when it is prolonging the inevitable of a painful death anyways. Doctors should be able to euthanize their terminally ill patients, only if the patient goes through and passes a set of requirements to be qualified for this kind of treatment. Doctors should be able to perform euthanasia for the same reasons they can perform risky lifesaving surgeries or even non …show more content…
One reason being the way the doctors look at it, and it being morally wrong to kill a patient when their oath is to help the patients live. Also, for a lot of terminally ill patients they feel like a burden to their family, because of all of the medical bills that come with being terminally ill, and also just the amount of care that someone in that state would need. They say that by legalizing it more people would choose it because of its easiness for themselves and their families. Also, like I said earlier the right to die would become a duty to die for some (Dowbiggin “A Merciful End:” ). Some studies have shown that it is taking away peoples will for recovery, to try and do the treatment, because death is a lot easier (Bruenig). Medical research has shown that by legalizing euthanasia, they believe it would give the people responsible for palliative care funding and research an easy out in that respect (Tonti-Filippini 715-717). Some people even give reasoning comparing euthanasia to the acts in Nazi Germany, saying it has the same disregard for life