Liberal Arguments Against Euthanasia

Euthanasia is the act of putting someone to death painlessly or allowing them to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering an incurable, especially a painful disease or condition. (1) The word euthanasia is greek, meaning pleasant or good death. It is a complex controversy all over the world with two sides: liberal and conservative. The liberal belief is that euthanasia should be allowed because a person has the right to die. They believe that it is immensely wrong to force someone to go through the massive amounts of pain and suffering. Also, liberals argue that if euthanasia is legalized, it will reduce medical costs and doctors will be able to focus on the patients that have a better chance of surviving. …show more content…
Voluntary euthanasia is when a person requests to die. Involuntary is when the person doesn’t get to make a decision and they aren’t asked. Also known as assisted suicide, nonvoluntary is when a person is at vegetative state. Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) is when someone can do simple actions including blinking, breathing, and following an object with eyes but is “brain dead”. There are two types of euthanasia which are active and passive. Active is a quicker death with no struggle of pain. Passive is a more “natural” way of dying where there are no medications to help, instead they sit there until the patient …show more content…
To begin with, a patient with the choice to end their life wouldn’t have to suffer the pain anymore, and they can die with dignity. It would also reduce the pain that the family feels to watch their loved one suffer. Finally, doctors might have a better chance at saving more people if they focus on those who aren’t terminally ill which relates to picking of the best known as “the culling of mankind”. These pros to euthanasia do prove a point that legalizing it would have positives but there are just as many, if not more negatives. For starters, euthanasia violates the hippocratic oath. It gives doctors too much power and as mentioned before, it decreases the value of human life. Legalizing euthanasia may also cause for suicides which is against many religions. These are just a few of the cons of euthanasia. Many people view the issue of abortion to be connected to euthanasia, especially the conservatives. Conservatives toward euthanasia believe it is murder and they believe it is the same with abortion. They understand that although it is not a born baby, it is a different breathing creature that deserves to be brought into the world. Liberals toward abortion believe it is up to the woman to make the decision because it is her