Euthanasia And The Duty To Die Analysis

Part A: One of the moral issues in the reading that I found challenging and transformed is the Euthanasia and the Duty to Die. This issue is very difficult for me due to the fact of seeing love ones suffer with a terminally illness that seem hopeless. In the reading, it states that the term Euthanasia is killing someone for the sake of mercy (148). I cannot see myself killing someone for the sake of having mercy on him or her, having mercy on someone for me is too helping him or her not to harm. So it someone is starving and unable to feed himself or herself am I supposed to kill them for the sake of mercy? Take the many victim of West Africa that are dying every day, hoping that that someone will find a cure for this deadly disease. I know that many people may wish at times, that the pain would end. Seeing the hurt and suffering of a love one beg or ask their maker to take them, if there is no relief in sight; can be very devastating I think more on a family member than the one that is suffer. I believe …show more content…
In the Journals of the American Medical Association, studies were conducted from 355 oncologists and that 16% had participated in euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (148). It even stated that the law allows children age twelve to sixteen to request euthanasia with the consent of their parents (149). The law became legal in the USA November 1997 known as the Death and Dignity Act (149). So if this is an act of dignity, than why is it that criminal on the death roll face the same act? It also stated that one must wait fifteen days before receiving the medication to end one life (149). I cannot believe that through all the suffering one must bare, would want to deal with know that their life will end in fifteen day will really be able to commit to the