Rightful Suicide
“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice” (Palahniuk). People will terminal illnesses face excruciating pain all the time. They take drugs after drugs, but nothing seems to cure or at least ease the person’s pain. Some eventually get tired of living with the agony, so they consider the idea of suicide or euthanasia. Euthanasia often carries a negative implication, for some people think of it as murder. While others see it as putting a patient to death without pain or suffering. People debate over the patients wanting to end their life, for some are for it while others think it is not the right decision to make. If drugs and treatments cannot cure the patient then it should be their decision if they want to continue being alive or end their life. I myself am for it. Their suicide will stop their suffering, reduce financial debt of the hospital, and preserve individual right to determine fate.
First, the patient is in so much agony because of the illness that they …show more content…
They believe that if voluntary euthanasia would be legalized, it would not be long until involuntary euthanasia would begin. When euthanasia was legalized in the Netherlands in 1990, “eight thousand and one hundred died when doctors deliberately gave them an overdose of pain medication to kill them for which four thousand and nine hundred forty one patients didn’t consent”( Ertelt). However, many of the physicians assisting this procedure without consent did it with the families consent. The patient depending on the state he or she is in may not be able to make decisions for one. The immediate family would then be the one that would need to be the ones that are going to make the decisions for them. The whole decision should not be based on something that was taken out of context. That is why euthanasia should be legalized and should not be seen as a bad
“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice” (Palahniuk). People will terminal illnesses face excruciating pain all the time. They take drugs after drugs, but nothing seems to cure or at least ease the person’s pain. Some eventually get tired of living with the agony, so they consider the idea of suicide or euthanasia. Euthanasia often carries a negative implication, for some people think of it as murder. While others see it as putting a patient to death without pain or suffering. People debate over the patients wanting to end their life, for some are for it while others think it is not the right decision to make. If drugs and treatments cannot cure the patient then it should be their decision if they want to continue being alive or end their life. I myself am for it. Their suicide will stop their suffering, reduce financial debt of the hospital, and preserve individual right to determine fate.
First, the patient is in so much agony because of the illness that they …show more content…
They believe that if voluntary euthanasia would be legalized, it would not be long until involuntary euthanasia would begin. When euthanasia was legalized in the Netherlands in 1990, “eight thousand and one hundred died when doctors deliberately gave them an overdose of pain medication to kill them for which four thousand and nine hundred forty one patients didn’t consent”( Ertelt). However, many of the physicians assisting this procedure without consent did it with the families consent. The patient depending on the state he or she is in may not be able to make decisions for one. The immediate family would then be the one that would need to be the ones that are going to make the decisions for them. The whole decision should not be based on something that was taken out of context. That is why euthanasia should be legalized and should not be seen as a bad