Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending someone’s life to relieve the patient from pain and suffering. Many researchers have significantly discussed the euthanasia and its ethical applicability. For example, James Rachels, Bonnie Steinbock and John Hardwig and Brock have vividly offered the exposition of their thoughts and opinions regarding the intentional and deliberate termination of someone’s life. Notably, the cessation of the employment of extraordinary means of prolonging an individual’s life when there is refutable evidence that the biological death is imminent should be the decision of the patient or the immediate family. In this sense, the advice and the judgment of the physician should be open and readily available
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In reality, the duty to terminate one’s life is incompatible with the recognition of human dignity or the intrinsic value within a person. Additionally, gravely ill or dying people are already bearing the harsh burdens of pain and suffering. A duty to die in this case through asking them to bear an additional burden of ending their lives is wrong and unacceptable. I think that death should come naturally. It is the duty of God to give life and to take away that very life.
Hadwig continues to argue that “there is a specific group of people who are bestowed a full duty to die” (Hadwig 35). Old people top this list according to Hadwig. He argues that a duty to die becomes as you grow older. That as people age, they will be giving less by giving up their lives. It is wrong for the author Hadwig to assert that it is wrong to reach an age of seventy-five or eighty without being inclined to death.
Understandably, there is no relationship between wealth and the duty to die. As Hadwig claims, the duty to die is more likely when one has lived full and rich life. Let’s consider a child born in a rich family and has lived for fifty years in a vibrant life, does he has a duty to die? Sensibly arguing, the duty to die does not find any space for compatibility in this …show more content…
I do not think that the fact that patients have the right to refute treatment should guarantee doctors or his or her relatives to judge or decide on the termination of his or her life. Passive euthanasia or the failure to institute the ordinary care contributes to the neglect and is generally considered as an intentional infliction of harm, pain, and death. I think that euthanasia should be inflicted only during extreme and prolonged pain and suffering that is understood by everyone and in situation where neither medical attention will nor any other health care will save the life of the
In reality, the duty to terminate one’s life is incompatible with the recognition of human dignity or the intrinsic value within a person. Additionally, gravely ill or dying people are already bearing the harsh burdens of pain and suffering. A duty to die in this case through asking them to bear an additional burden of ending their lives is wrong and unacceptable. I think that death should come naturally. It is the duty of God to give life and to take away that very life.
Hadwig continues to argue that “there is a specific group of people who are bestowed a full duty to die” (Hadwig 35). Old people top this list according to Hadwig. He argues that a duty to die becomes as you grow older. That as people age, they will be giving less by giving up their lives. It is wrong for the author Hadwig to assert that it is wrong to reach an age of seventy-five or eighty without being inclined to death.
Understandably, there is no relationship between wealth and the duty to die. As Hadwig claims, the duty to die is more likely when one has lived full and rich life. Let’s consider a child born in a rich family and has lived for fifty years in a vibrant life, does he has a duty to die? Sensibly arguing, the duty to die does not find any space for compatibility in this …show more content…
I do not think that the fact that patients have the right to refute treatment should guarantee doctors or his or her relatives to judge or decide on the termination of his or her life. Passive euthanasia or the failure to institute the ordinary care contributes to the neglect and is generally considered as an intentional infliction of harm, pain, and death. I think that euthanasia should be inflicted only during extreme and prolonged pain and suffering that is understood by everyone and in situation where neither medical attention will nor any other health care will save the life of the