The Importance Of Active Euthanasia

In the practice of autonomy, people take accountability for their own lives, and part of that accountability is choosing the manner of their death and deciding whether their life has enough quality to live. Many who choose physician aid in dying (PAD) choose to die with dignity and happiness while surrounded with close friends or family. Another argument for active euthanasia is beneficence. Beneficence is the presumption if someone is in the position or has the ability to relieve the suffering of a terminally ill patient, then that person has the right to do so. PAD should not be considered wrong if the patient so chooses if it is the only foreseeable solution to relieving the prolonging suffering of a patient. Lastly, utilitarians make judgments on which action brings the best overall satisfactory. They believe it would be the best decision to end someone’s life if the remaining portion of his or her life will only be filled with pain and suffering. …show more content…
Nancy is a mother, whose husband died of liver cancer and her witnessing of his suffering ultimately gave her the undying motivation to legalize euthanasia in Washington, otherwise known as Initiative 1000 or “Death with Dignity”. Her viewpoint was that each person should have the right to choose their manner of death. It goes to say that many people like her who support death with dignity or become involved with this issue do so because they have experienced or have had a close friend or family member suffering with a terminal