Diana Pretty definitely has the entitlement to choose death as should anyone who’s suffering is unbearable and at the end stages of life. Diana Pretty is 43 years-old so it isn’t like she’s a child who hasn’t experienced or lived life, she was able to enjoy some of her life before she was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, which she’s at the end stage of, “MND is a progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disease that is relatively
rare” (Kent, 2012, p. 48). This being said, she has a chronic disease that’s not curable and only worsens thus, extremely reducing her quality of life and there’s nothing she can do about it. Motor neurone disease is an illness that extremely disables a person’s life, “when motor neurons are damaged or stop
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Also, according to Kent (2012), people with MND start to lose their ability to communicate, but can still understand what’s happening around them. This being said, that if they understand that they want to end their life like Diana does, they’re fully cognitively competent enough to make their own decisions in relation to their end of life decisions. Diana Pretty was in her last stages of the disease, she was at the point where she lost complete autonomy and couldn’t commit suicide herself and they were denying authorizing laws persuading the right to euthanasia in Britain. Therefore, it would be considered a crime if her husband helped her die so he didn’t help her. The struggle of fighting in court just to win and be able to die without continuing to suffer shows that it should be unethical to let someone suffer like that, Diana states, “I want to have a quick death without suffering, at home surrounded by my family” (Pretty), which is completely human and the right thing to grant anyone who’s at the end stages of their incurable …show more content…
2), which is exactly where I stand in consideration of Diana, she was suffering so much and lost everything about her life. It’s dehumanizing to put someone through that who in every attempt would kill herself if she could, but physically can’t. Euthanasia is viewed as unethical because you’re helping kill a living being who’s time hasn’t come yet, but it also questions, “the ability to live longer often entails a diminished quality of life for those who suffer from degenerative or incurable diseases” (Butler, 2013, p 1). The whole point of life is to amplify one’s quality of life when it becomes unattainable then one must possess the right to decide the outcomes of their future. A controversy issue stemming from euthanasia that inhibits its illegalization is it’s “ God’s right to determine both the beginning and end of life- euthanasia is a violation of God’s will” (Ogden, 1994, p. 3) so people can’t decide their death. The fear of legalizing euthanasia can provoke the “ slippery slope” argument where it prompts a future of unethical and unacceptable practices in the medical field. Verbakel & Jaspers (2010) argue the slippery slope theory in the direction that people who lose control in their lives like the elderly, inactive individuals, people
Also, according to Kent (2012), people with MND start to lose their ability to communicate, but can still understand what’s happening around them. This being said, that if they understand that they want to end their life like Diana does, they’re fully cognitively competent enough to make their own decisions in relation to their end of life decisions. Diana Pretty was in her last stages of the disease, she was at the point where she lost complete autonomy and couldn’t commit suicide herself and they were denying authorizing laws persuading the right to euthanasia in Britain. Therefore, it would be considered a crime if her husband helped her die so he didn’t help her. The struggle of fighting in court just to win and be able to die without continuing to suffer shows that it should be unethical to let someone suffer like that, Diana states, “I want to have a quick death without suffering, at home surrounded by my family” (Pretty), which is completely human and the right thing to grant anyone who’s at the end stages of their incurable …show more content…
2), which is exactly where I stand in consideration of Diana, she was suffering so much and lost everything about her life. It’s dehumanizing to put someone through that who in every attempt would kill herself if she could, but physically can’t. Euthanasia is viewed as unethical because you’re helping kill a living being who’s time hasn’t come yet, but it also questions, “the ability to live longer often entails a diminished quality of life for those who suffer from degenerative or incurable diseases” (Butler, 2013, p 1). The whole point of life is to amplify one’s quality of life when it becomes unattainable then one must possess the right to decide the outcomes of their future. A controversy issue stemming from euthanasia that inhibits its illegalization is it’s “ God’s right to determine both the beginning and end of life- euthanasia is a violation of God’s will” (Ogden, 1994, p. 3) so people can’t decide their death. The fear of legalizing euthanasia can provoke the “ slippery slope” argument where it prompts a future of unethical and unacceptable practices in the medical field. Verbakel & Jaspers (2010) argue the slippery slope theory in the direction that people who lose control in their lives like the elderly, inactive individuals, people