Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide
Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal?
● Euthanasia is the direct killing a person, usually by injecting a lethal substance.
● Euthanasia is prohibited in all 50 states under homicide laws.
● Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands with or without the consent of the patient. Guidelines have been adopted to allow the killing of newborns with disabilities. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium and Luxembourg.
● Assisted suicide involves one person providing the means and instructions to help another person commit suicide. ● Most states have laws which prohibit assisted suicide.
● Attempts to legalize assisted suicide with ballot measures have been defeated in five states.
● Assisted suicide …show more content…
In other words, giving a nationwide go-ahead for doctors to legally end their patient’s lives actually halved the number of unwanted deaths.
April 29th 2017 Brannya Bechthold
Euthanasia and Why it Should be Legalized
Euthanasia is when a qualified Physician, painlessly kills a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease. People who are suffering from such diseases (i.e Guillain Barre syndrome) do not deserve to have this pain inflicted on them. Instead of having to sit and suffer, bedridden for the rest of their lives, those patients should have the option to decide if they could have a physician assist them in suicide. Euthanasia is illegal and needs to be legalized to help the patients who are in pain.
The patient should have more of an opinion in this than the family. The patient's family might want them to keep them alive, not realizing how much pain the family member is in. There are many reasons why these people deserve to have a choice, some of which include; It saves lives, It opens up spaces in the hospital for curable, serious disease patients, and these patients could be used
Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal?
● Euthanasia is the direct killing a person, usually by injecting a lethal substance.
● Euthanasia is prohibited in all 50 states under homicide laws.
● Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands with or without the consent of the patient. Guidelines have been adopted to allow the killing of newborns with disabilities. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium and Luxembourg.
● Assisted suicide involves one person providing the means and instructions to help another person commit suicide. ● Most states have laws which prohibit assisted suicide.
● Attempts to legalize assisted suicide with ballot measures have been defeated in five states.
● Assisted suicide …show more content…
In other words, giving a nationwide go-ahead for doctors to legally end their patient’s lives actually halved the number of unwanted deaths.
April 29th 2017 Brannya Bechthold
Euthanasia and Why it Should be Legalized
Euthanasia is when a qualified Physician, painlessly kills a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease. People who are suffering from such diseases (i.e Guillain Barre syndrome) do not deserve to have this pain inflicted on them. Instead of having to sit and suffer, bedridden for the rest of their lives, those patients should have the option to decide if they could have a physician assist them in suicide. Euthanasia is illegal and needs to be legalized to help the patients who are in pain.
The patient should have more of an opinion in this than the family. The patient's family might want them to keep them alive, not realizing how much pain the family member is in. There are many reasons why these people deserve to have a choice, some of which include; It saves lives, It opens up spaces in the hospital for curable, serious disease patients, and these patients could be used