All around the world, every single day there many cases of people dying from very lethal diseases. And everyday there is someone, somewhere suffering these diseases, slowing dying. In a lot of these situations euthanasia would be very helpful. What’s euthanasia? Euthanasia is the process of a painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. In the United States this practice is illegal in all but 4 States.
Let’s look at it like this, let’s say your 9 year old child has had a very lethal heart disease for the last several months without your knowledge. You go in to get them checked and their doctor discovers that they have this disease, but It’s probably too late to try to cure or even maintain. The doctor says the disease will progressively get worse over the next months. 14 months later you’re child is probably on their deathbed slowly suffering from this disease and there’s nothing you can do. Oh wait! There is. You’re given two options. You can either let your child suffer with a little to no chance of making it or you can request to have them euthanized and end their suffering with no pain. Choose wisely… …show more content…
In this oath the quote “do no harm” is very important to them, but there’s no elaboration. Is continuing someone’s painful life not doing harm? Allowing someone to suffer longer doesn’t seem like you’re not doing harm especially if that doctor is 99.9% sure that that patient will not make it. Also euthanasia is completely harmless so “Doing no harm” is off the table. You’re honestly helping them by ending their
Let’s look at it like this, let’s say your 9 year old child has had a very lethal heart disease for the last several months without your knowledge. You go in to get them checked and their doctor discovers that they have this disease, but It’s probably too late to try to cure or even maintain. The doctor says the disease will progressively get worse over the next months. 14 months later you’re child is probably on their deathbed slowly suffering from this disease and there’s nothing you can do. Oh wait! There is. You’re given two options. You can either let your child suffer with a little to no chance of making it or you can request to have them euthanized and end their suffering with no pain. Choose wisely… …show more content…
In this oath the quote “do no harm” is very important to them, but there’s no elaboration. Is continuing someone’s painful life not doing harm? Allowing someone to suffer longer doesn’t seem like you’re not doing harm especially if that doctor is 99.9% sure that that patient will not make it. Also euthanasia is completely harmless so “Doing no harm” is off the table. You’re honestly helping them by ending their