Why Is Euthanasia Be Legalized?

Euthanasia Controversy Lawfully people are entitled to freedom, but the law also states that it is there to protect us. This creates controversy because euthanasia, assisted suicide by a physician, falls into the categories of giving the people the freedom to choose or protecting the weak from making a inadequate decision ( Butler-Sloss). The question is should euthanasia be legal or illegal? While assisted suicide is legal in the state of Oregon and the Netherlands, many governments are unsure if making assisted dying legal is a good choice ( “Life is too Precious for Lawmakers to Assist Its Ending” , Goodale). People all over the world have been debating for the past 20 years if euthanasia should be legalized. In most cases the citizens …show more content…
The reason is the fact that euthanasia is not legal in most parts of the world and many physicians are secretly giving their patients drugs that will end their lives. The issue with that is because it is not legal it could be overused, misprescribed, and the physicians are in threat of the consequences of the law (Landers). If assisted suicide were to be legalized it would change all these issues. The government feels that legalizing this would open the door to many other problems, but that is the complete opposite because the government would have a chance to regulate the safety and health to the the patient who had desired their death and be able to closely watch the physicians who are administering it. Patients and their families would feel much safer knowing that there are less risks if it were to become legal because if it were to be legalized there would obviously have to be rules and regulations. Archer, the author of the article “Legalising Euthanasia Would Be Only the Start of Our Experiment” discovered that there has been a bill proposed to the government stating the guidelines of euthanasia stating that there should be “ two physicians declaring that a patient has six months to live” to ensure that the freedom that the law is giving the people does not become misused (Archer). For example, Peter Short, the author of the article “Let There Be No Doubt I Will Decide When I …show more content…
Again bringing up religion, while some of Catholic church may be okay with it, others like Christians do not feel the same way. They feel that life is a “gift of God” and when people decide to end their own lives they are committing a great sin because religious people feel that because God put you into the world he is the only one that can take you out (Stefoff 22). A lot of people in the world have some sort of religion they live their life by and for example, America, has many Christians. Because this goes against what Christians believe most people do not think euthanasia is acceptable nor moral, so lawmakers should leave the law how it is and make it illegal for physicians to help end their patient’s lives. Another reason that euthanasia is immoral is that the patient who desires to end their life is “asking a lot of his killer” because the killer who most likely is a physician is helping someone kill themselves (Archer). The doctors prescribing the medicines or administering them may feel like assisting their patient’s wish is a good thing at the moment but, as time goes on they may feel guilty because in a way, the doctor had somehow murdered their patient even if they only had good intentions at first. While there are many reasons why euthanasia should not be legal, there are also many reasons why it should be. As it can