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Euthanasia for People with Mental Illness.
The right to die has become one of the most controversial issues of the century. Should people in unbearable suffering be allowed to have the right to die? Furthermore, Should people with mental illnesses be allowed to die? Because although there is no way to show or prove that it is terminal but the people with certain mental illnesses are still in unbearable suffering. The definition of euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient in unbearable suffering. By those terms euthanasia for people with mental illnesses should also be allowed the right to die. Mental health euthanasia …show more content…
What makes it different and more controversial than normal euthanasia is the fact that there is no way of proving if your illness is terminal or if it is only temporary, because no one can understand what the patient is going through or how it is affecting them other than the person dealing with the illness, this makes it much harder for the doctors to be able to decide if people with mental illnesses should be able to be euthanised. The thing is that to be able to be euthanized you need to be mentally stable, but obviously the people with mental illnesses will be mentally affected by their illness as people with serious depression will be unable to see life in a positive light and unable to find a reason to live. This makes it very, very hard for doctors to make a decision. More commonly people who are applying for mental health euthanasia will have to have their illnesses for a seriously long amount of time to prove that they are unfixable and that there is no hope of …show more content…
This makes it much harder to compare and decide if euthanasia should be allowed for the patient because each patient's circumstances will be different, which makes it hard to decide the circumstance on which euthanasia for people with mental illnesses should be allowed. With normal euthanasia you have to prove that the patient is mentally stable for them to be able to be euthanised but with mental health euthanasia this is impossible as Australian Dr Philip Nitschke states in an article about the pro and cons of mental health euthanasia that letting people with mental illnesses be euthanised would create a legal assumption that people who attempt suicide are mentally stable enough to make an informed voluntary decision yet this would reverse the claims from studies that people attempting suicide are deranged and in need of psychological help. This makes it hard for doctors to be able to decide if a patient is able to get euthanasia for their mental illness because studies show that they are not in the right mind to be making life or death decisions which means that a whole team of doctors has to work with the patient to see if there is any chance of improvement, and if euthanasia were to take place how would they like to be euthanized. It takes years to make the decision and
Showing engagement with the topic
Forming opinions, making judgments and forming conclusions
Euthanasia for People with Mental Illness.
The right to die has become one of the most controversial issues of the century. Should people in unbearable suffering be allowed to have the right to die? Furthermore, Should people with mental illnesses be allowed to die? Because although there is no way to show or prove that it is terminal but the people with certain mental illnesses are still in unbearable suffering. The definition of euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient in unbearable suffering. By those terms euthanasia for people with mental illnesses should also be allowed the right to die. Mental health euthanasia …show more content…
What makes it different and more controversial than normal euthanasia is the fact that there is no way of proving if your illness is terminal or if it is only temporary, because no one can understand what the patient is going through or how it is affecting them other than the person dealing with the illness, this makes it much harder for the doctors to be able to decide if people with mental illnesses should be able to be euthanised. The thing is that to be able to be euthanized you need to be mentally stable, but obviously the people with mental illnesses will be mentally affected by their illness as people with serious depression will be unable to see life in a positive light and unable to find a reason to live. This makes it very, very hard for doctors to make a decision. More commonly people who are applying for mental health euthanasia will have to have their illnesses for a seriously long amount of time to prove that they are unfixable and that there is no hope of …show more content…
This makes it much harder to compare and decide if euthanasia should be allowed for the patient because each patient's circumstances will be different, which makes it hard to decide the circumstance on which euthanasia for people with mental illnesses should be allowed. With normal euthanasia you have to prove that the patient is mentally stable for them to be able to be euthanised but with mental health euthanasia this is impossible as Australian Dr Philip Nitschke states in an article about the pro and cons of mental health euthanasia that letting people with mental illnesses be euthanised would create a legal assumption that people who attempt suicide are mentally stable enough to make an informed voluntary decision yet this would reverse the claims from studies that people attempting suicide are deranged and in need of psychological help. This makes it hard for doctors to be able to decide if a patient is able to get euthanasia for their mental illness because studies show that they are not in the right mind to be making life or death decisions which means that a whole team of doctors has to work with the patient to see if there is any chance of improvement, and if euthanasia were to take place how would they like to be euthanized. It takes years to make the decision and