Importance Of Euthanasia

Register to read the introduction… Doctors take the Hippocratic oath once they earn their doctorate in medicine. This oath binds them to practice medicine ethically, but it does not state what ethically means in terms of the patient’s well being. Some would argue that euthanasia and assisted suicide is against the oath as the doctor’s are supposed to help the person to the fullest extent, which would ideally be a cure for whatever ails the patient. Others would debate that once a doctor has done all they can do and the patient is more or less at a stand still with their suffering and it is causing that patient to lose their quality of life, it should be the physicians responsibility to make that person feel as content as possible, even if that means death. One doctor, Dr. Cox, went against his Britain’s law that said euthanasia was illegal in 1992. He chose to give in to his patient’s pleads for death as he knew there was nothing he could do to help his patient any longer. Dr. Cox was stripped of his license to practice medicine and he was put in jail for several years on the bases that, even though his patient’s living will stated that they would want to be taken off of life support if their prognosis did not look good, he murdered the elderly man ("Euthanasia, right to …show more content…
Mill’s sociological imagination, which is defined as the application of imaginative though to the asking and answering of sociological questions ("Social Science Dictionary"), are the stories of Anthony Bland, Sue Rodriguez, and Ramon Sanpedro ("Euthanasia, right to die"). By March of 1993 in the UK, Mr. Bland had been in a vegetative state for three years. Mr. Bland had supposedly told his family that if his condition, which is not stated, had gotten to the point where we was in a coma, he did not want to remain on life support. However, because he never made this legal by way of a living will, the Court Order that allowed him to finally be allowed off the life support did not come until he had been in the vegetative state for three years. Mrs. Rodriguez was slowly and painfully dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Even though she herself pleaded with the courts to allow her to have her doctor help her commit assisted-suicide when her muscles atrophied to the point in which her quality of life had completely deteriorated, they denied her. In February of 1994, a doctor helped her in secret, thus breaking the law, in order for her to finally rest at peace. And lastly, Mr. Sanpedro also went through the courts in order to receive medical assistance with his death. As a young boy, Mr. Sanpedro was paralyzed from the neck down after an unfortunate accident while swimming in Spain. The courts denied him because there were plenty of other people who were in the same condition that lived decent enough