If death is destined due to sickness, then the patient should be able to decide whether they want a peaceful death or a painful death. Patients who are suffering from an incurable disease, or any kind of disability do not deserve to suffer and legalizing euthanasia can help cure their suffering since not many want to live after a period of time when the patient and the doctor knows that it is too late and nothing further can be done to improve the patient’s condition, or relieve their pain. She could not end her life on her own terms, so instead she suffered: a crippling stroke; massive blood loss after an angiogram; dialysis; constant hospitalization; and mistreatment by staff. Month after month, she sank further into despair (Hayes). This excerpt is from an article where its author Mathew Hayes describes the condition and suffering that his grandmother had to go through before she reached the end of it. As it is described in the article, it was very hard for his grandmother to go through pain and treatments that brought more pain. Finally when her illness reached its max her body shut down before she could even say her last good bye to the family and friends. Now it would have been much different if euthanasia was legalized in the United States, Hayes grandmother could have had some happy days before she can peacefully let go of her
If death is destined due to sickness, then the patient should be able to decide whether they want a peaceful death or a painful death. Patients who are suffering from an incurable disease, or any kind of disability do not deserve to suffer and legalizing euthanasia can help cure their suffering since not many want to live after a period of time when the patient and the doctor knows that it is too late and nothing further can be done to improve the patient’s condition, or relieve their pain. She could not end her life on her own terms, so instead she suffered: a crippling stroke; massive blood loss after an angiogram; dialysis; constant hospitalization; and mistreatment by staff. Month after month, she sank further into despair (Hayes). This excerpt is from an article where its author Mathew Hayes describes the condition and suffering that his grandmother had to go through before she reached the end of it. As it is described in the article, it was very hard for his grandmother to go through pain and treatments that brought more pain. Finally when her illness reached its max her body shut down before she could even say her last good bye to the family and friends. Now it would have been much different if euthanasia was legalized in the United States, Hayes grandmother could have had some happy days before she can peacefully let go of her