The ability to end one’s life based on their medical state is an argument that has long been questioned by society. Patients who are constantly being infused with drugs, bedridden or suffer from severe pain, tend to believe that euthanasia is their only path. However, killing someone merely to free them from both physical and emotional distress is under no circumstances, a viable reason. The use of voluntary euthanasia grants physicians the right to assist their patients.
However, this kind of pressure heavily affects the patient 's decision process. Whether voluntary or not, legalizing euthanasia would grant patients who are hope-deprived, a reason to commit suicide. As a result of legal euthanasia, many patients are “jumping the …show more content…
“Medical innovations can seem so futuristic that some would call them miracles. From paralyzed patients, controlling robotic arms to researchers who grow new body parts, the medical world is fast changing”. Likewise, legalizing euthanasia is as good as discarding thousands upon thousands of medical researches and achievements. According to statistics, many terminally ill patients have the option to take antidepressants while those suffering from excruciating pain have the option to use anesthesia, and other pain …show more content…
As the U.S began to endure The Great Depression, public support for euthanasia had risen to more than 45%. Those who once thought the use of euthanasia on mentally disabled children, were persuaded as they saw no guarantee of their own children 's survival. As euthanasia became more and more popular, various organizations were formed in order to legalize euthanasia. In 1938, the National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia was founded. The founder of this organization, Charles Francis Potter believed that any terminally ill person should have the right to a peaceful death. Involuntary euthanasia was used as a method to get rid of mental or crippled patients. This is exactly what the Nazis did, during their campaign, therefore reducing the public 's support once again. During this time period, those who supported euthanasia were accused of committing murder, mainly because of the Nazis
However, this kind of pressure heavily affects the patient 's decision process. Whether voluntary or not, legalizing euthanasia would grant patients who are hope-deprived, a reason to commit suicide. As a result of legal euthanasia, many patients are “jumping the …show more content…
“Medical innovations can seem so futuristic that some would call them miracles. From paralyzed patients, controlling robotic arms to researchers who grow new body parts, the medical world is fast changing”. Likewise, legalizing euthanasia is as good as discarding thousands upon thousands of medical researches and achievements. According to statistics, many terminally ill patients have the option to take antidepressants while those suffering from excruciating pain have the option to use anesthesia, and other pain …show more content…
As the U.S began to endure The Great Depression, public support for euthanasia had risen to more than 45%. Those who once thought the use of euthanasia on mentally disabled children, were persuaded as they saw no guarantee of their own children 's survival. As euthanasia became more and more popular, various organizations were formed in order to legalize euthanasia. In 1938, the National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia was founded. The founder of this organization, Charles Francis Potter believed that any terminally ill person should have the right to a peaceful death. Involuntary euthanasia was used as a method to get rid of mental or crippled patients. This is exactly what the Nazis did, during their campaign, therefore reducing the public 's support once again. During this time period, those who supported euthanasia were accused of committing murder, mainly because of the Nazis