Essay On Active Euthanasia

There are many forms of Euthanasia which include; newborns with severe birth defects, people with painful disorders but are not dying, and adults who are in their final stages of a terminal illness. There is also passive and active euthanasia, passive euthanasia is when a patient stops taking lifesaving medications which would eventually cause them to die. Active euthanasia is when you are actually terminating a person’s life. I will be focusing on active euthanasia for adults who are in their final stages of their terminal illness and why it is moral for physicians to assist patients in ending their life. There are many arguments for euthanasia that include: a patient’s rights, the religious side of the argument, a doctor’s oath to his patients and the limitations for active euthanasia. We as human beings have a right to make choices that will ultimately only affect us. While some people say that we don’t have a legal right to die, people do still have a human right to end their life if they are suffering. Even if there isn’t a single person who would choose to end their life, that option should always be available. Not one who is not terminally ill knows what those people are suffering, we can’t know the pain that they are constantly feeling. And if that pain is severe enough that they would want to take their own life than we should let them. Physicians always do everything in their power to help terminally ill patients, but they reach a point where there …show more content…
Doctor’s swear by an oath that they will do no harm and that they will not give anybody a deadly drug even if they asked for it. However as Philip Nitschke, MD said from the Top 10 Pros and Cons, “Over time the Hippocratic Oath has been modified on a number of occasions as some of its tenets became less and less acceptable.” Letting a person choose to die would cause less harm than if they had to live with the pain and they didn’t want