Pros And Cons Of Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide Euthanasia refers to intentional death offered to someone in order to relieve suffering and pain.Euthanasia is categorized into voluntary, non voluntary or involuntary. Non voluntary euthanasia in all countries is illegal, while involuntary euthanasia is considered as murder.there is a divided public opinion over the morality of euthanasia and legal issues that come with it are also weighty. Those who argue against it argue for sanctity in life, while those who support it emphasize on the aspect of alleviation of suffering, self determination, integrity and personal autonomy. In this paper, i will strive to analyze the pros and cons of euthanasia and give its implications as far as life is concerned. Modern …show more content…
It is good to note that there exists different forms of euthanasia and that passive euthanasia is quite widespread in hospitals and it involves facing an impossible to cure disease with attempts to alleviate the suffering associated with it. Drugs such as narcotics are usually employed, or sometimes the ultimate therapy is stopped altogether because of its futility and the person left to die. It involves withdrawing life support either voluntarily or non …show more content…
Since no body can be able to measure the degree of another person’s pain, it would be inexorable if we did not allow this people to fulfill their wish.It is therefore their right to ask for assisted death and it should be respected. No one wishes to die voluntarily, the driving force in this case is usually despair created by disease process. It is painful living with the death imminent in your mind, most people develop much more pressure this way and lose their entitlement to life. “ Euthanasia and assisted suicide will help shorten the duration of pre-mortem suffering and also eliminate death and how and when death will occur. The patient will have a measure of control over the process of dying” (Singer,