Argumentative Essay: The Problem Of Euthanasia

Register to read the introduction… Even then it was a subject of many debates among the doctors, lawyers, and psychologists… Attitude toward the intentional hastening of the death of the terminally ill patient even with a purpose to end their sufferings never was an unambiguous. Although the idea of euthanasia originated long time ago, the traditional medical ethics includes a prohibition since Hippocrates’ time until nowadays. “I neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, no make a suggestion to his effect” (Whose right to Die, page 2). Nevertheless, today the doctors have to bring up the question of euthanasia more frequently, at least then when a patient asks for a death himself. How should we deal with this problem? Should this be treated as liberation from old taboos or as unregulated practice which is very dangerous from moral point of view? For all of us it is unbearably painful to see the sufferings of the people who die. A modern man has forgotten how to endure pain stoically, and the mankind lost the ability to bear it; hence, today people suffer from cancer a lot more than in the past. And this is due to the fact that over the last decades there was made an absolute progress in the fight against cancer. The progress that has led to the fact that today …show more content…
I was amazed how calm the patient and the family were, the room was filled with the peace and tranquility. At that moment I realized how much pain and sufferings all gathered there have been through. So many tears were shed and sleepless nights spent at the bedside of the loved one. I believe that in order to come to decision to choose the euthanasia a patient has go through a long path no less painful than a physical