The Uses of Euthanasia in Today’s Society
Matthew Donnelly was a middle-aged man who was consumed by skin cancer; he was no one of great importance, but simply was a man who loved life too much to leave it in pain. Matthew pleaded to the doctors to end this misery, but they refused because killing a man just to put him out of his misery would be immoral. People had not considered assisted suicide until the 1990’s when a man named Jack Kevorkian sparked the idea. Jack Kevorkian, or better known as “Doctor Death” started to help ease patients out of their pain by helping to end their lives. “He made regular visits to terminally ill patients, photographing their eyes in an attempt to pinpoint the exact moment of death.” Before Kevorkian, assisted …show more content…
Another root of these ideas is the quality of life which gives doctors the leverage they need to put forth the ideas of assisted suicide. Medicine only prolongs the sickness as well as the death of a patient, making them more miserable than they were in the beginning. One of the only solutions to lessening the patient’s pain without ending their life is by giving them an immense amount of painkillers, but it is not morally right to watch someone in a vegetative state. Being in a vegetative state could be worse than if one was to commit suicide because they are not living to their fullest potential if they are always drugged on pain killers. Some may argue that the Hippocratic Oath says that a doctor is unable to end a patient’s life, but it also says that they need to do whatever it takes to make it the most comfortable for them. If performing euthanasia is the only way to make it relaxed, then it is their obligation to achieve this type of operation; this would be the doctor’s obligation because they would be giving the patient the most use out of life that they were able to …show more content…
If assisted suicide became legal, patients might begin to think that their life is devalued and could be seen as another problem that society is facing. If this were to become legal, it might give off the impression that doctors don’t really care about the patient getting better. It could also possibly give off the feeling that they would rather assist them in suicide instead of having to spend tons of money on someone who could just potentially die. A solution that could be used to help fix this situation is to give more information to ill patients about the different options they have regarding their illness. A doctor named Tracy E. Miller, who is against assisted suicide, believes that patients don’t have full knowledge of the fact that they have more options besides suffering or committing suicide. She believes that as a society, we need to care more for our
Matthew Donnelly was a middle-aged man who was consumed by skin cancer; he was no one of great importance, but simply was a man who loved life too much to leave it in pain. Matthew pleaded to the doctors to end this misery, but they refused because killing a man just to put him out of his misery would be immoral. People had not considered assisted suicide until the 1990’s when a man named Jack Kevorkian sparked the idea. Jack Kevorkian, or better known as “Doctor Death” started to help ease patients out of their pain by helping to end their lives. “He made regular visits to terminally ill patients, photographing their eyes in an attempt to pinpoint the exact moment of death.” Before Kevorkian, assisted …show more content…
Another root of these ideas is the quality of life which gives doctors the leverage they need to put forth the ideas of assisted suicide. Medicine only prolongs the sickness as well as the death of a patient, making them more miserable than they were in the beginning. One of the only solutions to lessening the patient’s pain without ending their life is by giving them an immense amount of painkillers, but it is not morally right to watch someone in a vegetative state. Being in a vegetative state could be worse than if one was to commit suicide because they are not living to their fullest potential if they are always drugged on pain killers. Some may argue that the Hippocratic Oath says that a doctor is unable to end a patient’s life, but it also says that they need to do whatever it takes to make it the most comfortable for them. If performing euthanasia is the only way to make it relaxed, then it is their obligation to achieve this type of operation; this would be the doctor’s obligation because they would be giving the patient the most use out of life that they were able to …show more content…
If assisted suicide became legal, patients might begin to think that their life is devalued and could be seen as another problem that society is facing. If this were to become legal, it might give off the impression that doctors don’t really care about the patient getting better. It could also possibly give off the feeling that they would rather assist them in suicide instead of having to spend tons of money on someone who could just potentially die. A solution that could be used to help fix this situation is to give more information to ill patients about the different options they have regarding their illness. A doctor named Tracy E. Miller, who is against assisted suicide, believes that patients don’t have full knowledge of the fact that they have more options besides suffering or committing suicide. She believes that as a society, we need to care more for our