“Human life doesn’t need to be extended by every medical means possible, but a person should never be intentionally killed.” says Ryan T. Anderson of Heritage Foundation, but he is completely wrong because if the patient wants to live no longer and gave consent, or their parents or children, to dying, then a doctor or medical professional should be obligated to give them what they request if there is no hope for a cure for their illness or they feel that they are too old to continue to live. Ryan continues to say, “Doctors may help their patients to die a dignified death from natural causes, but they should not kill their patients or help them to kill themselves.” A death from medication or lethal injection is just as natural as a dose of radiation
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In the US alone, around 23% of the population claims that they are not religious and that percent is rising steadily, which means that they don’t believe in a God or they don’t care whether God wanted to take their loved one up to heaven or not. Secondly, religious people should know that they don’t make all of the rules, not everyone wants to see their “right views” or “paths to salvation.” The minority, the non-religious percent of the population, is becoming the majority. Some people may believe that if God didn’t want a person to die, then God shouldn’t have made him or her get sick, but that depends on the religion that the person …show more content…
Not very many people chose to die this way though. Oregon has done it right with their assisted suicide law. Euthanasia is legal in Oregon because Oregon wants its citizens to have options and wants to limit no one to being degraded and forced onto life support. Very, very few people actually go through with assisted suicide in Oregon, the only state that the practice was legal for a very long time. From late 1997, when it became legal, to January of 2012, only 752 people died from euthanasia, or assisted, or mercy, suicide. But that number has been increasing, in 1997 only 16 people died from mercy deaths with assisted suicide medications, but in 2013, 71 people died from the medication. This proves that there is little to no corruption in this program in Oregon and not a lot of people take advantage of their situations to die, that most people would rather live in misery than die with dignity. But the ones who did die are no longer in pain, which proves that the act helps more than it harms, and if this trend tells us anything about the rest of the country, then the bill in the whole country will do a lot of good
In the US alone, around 23% of the population claims that they are not religious and that percent is rising steadily, which means that they don’t believe in a God or they don’t care whether God wanted to take their loved one up to heaven or not. Secondly, religious people should know that they don’t make all of the rules, not everyone wants to see their “right views” or “paths to salvation.” The minority, the non-religious percent of the population, is becoming the majority. Some people may believe that if God didn’t want a person to die, then God shouldn’t have made him or her get sick, but that depends on the religion that the person …show more content…
Not very many people chose to die this way though. Oregon has done it right with their assisted suicide law. Euthanasia is legal in Oregon because Oregon wants its citizens to have options and wants to limit no one to being degraded and forced onto life support. Very, very few people actually go through with assisted suicide in Oregon, the only state that the practice was legal for a very long time. From late 1997, when it became legal, to January of 2012, only 752 people died from euthanasia, or assisted, or mercy, suicide. But that number has been increasing, in 1997 only 16 people died from mercy deaths with assisted suicide medications, but in 2013, 71 people died from the medication. This proves that there is little to no corruption in this program in Oregon and not a lot of people take advantage of their situations to die, that most people would rather live in misery than die with dignity. But the ones who did die are no longer in pain, which proves that the act helps more than it harms, and if this trend tells us anything about the rest of the country, then the bill in the whole country will do a lot of good