Eisenmenger's Argument Against Euthanasia

Euthanasia, also known as assisted suicide, is deliberately ending one's life in order to relieve intolerable and inevitable pain. Euthanasia should be legal so that people with terminal illnesses are not forced to suffer if they don’t want to. Everyone has the right to die with dignity, and these rights shouldn’t be different for those with terminal illnesses, who want to die before their pain becomes intolerable. Without euthanasia, many people who want their lives to end will take matters into their own hands. For example, Kelly Taylor was a woman who was born with Eisenmenger's syndrome and Klippel-Feil syndrome. Eisenmenger's is a heart and lung disorder with no cure, and Klippel-Feil is a spine disorder. After being on a waiting list for a lung transplant for 10 years and being refused, Kelly decided that she wanted to be euthanized because her life had become too painful, and she’d already been given only 1 year to live. …show more content…
Euthanasia being legal helps prevent many unnecessarily painful deaths. Lastly, the Hippocratic oath, one of the most popular and oldest medical documents is still followed by medical professionals. It states that doctors should do no harm to their patients (“Also… I will utterly reject harm.”). However, it is harmful to patients to let their quality of life deteriorate to the point where they want their lives to end, but force them to stay alive. To conclude, euthanasia should be legal because, everyone should have the right to die a peaceful death, and people shouldn’t be forced to suffer through intolerable pain, and extremely painful