Thinking about the future is something that is inevitable for humans, we always want the best in our lives and always want the best for our loved ones. Sometimes one might look as far as death, yes that does seem very depressing, but we think to that point because we worry abou the pain that might come then. Most people do not want to endure that pain and I have heard many people in my life time say “I just want it to be quick and painless” when speaking about their death. Again this is a dark subject, but the problem is that it is reality and it is in our DNA that we do not want to suffer and experience pain. This brings up the question of: Is it human to end a human's life? And anyone's natural response to that is an immediate gasp followed
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We can see right in the Ten Commandments that catholics already oppose physician assisted suicide in the commandment of “Thou shalt not kill”. Even in the choice of taking a loved one off of a ventilator there are many questions that one asks themselves in the name of their faith and become very troubled because they watch a mother, father, or child suffer and fade from who they once knew. Lovelle Svart and Brittany Maynard are just two cases in which we can see the results of allowing PAS and giving these people the right to die and they have had positive results. The deaths of these people are not at all beautiful, but through their stories you can see their acceptance of death and how they have become at peace with themselves and their families. Brittany Maynard poses a great question, when speaking on death with dignity, stating “Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?” Why should she have to go and sit in a hospital on a machine that is keeping her alive but causing her extreme emotional and physical pain. Dragging her farther and farther away from who she once was, as she may forget who her own mother was even though she is standing right in front of her on the side of her bed. Why should that choice be taken away from someone? Even with having experienced my family having to make decisions like this before, I never …show more content…
It is easy to look at the benefits that would come from making this legal through the utilitarian ethics lense. Physician assisted suicide and right to die becoming legal would be the best outcome for the most amount of people. It is not only beneficial for the patient but also for the patient's family. I know this from experience because I had to watch my grandpa become a man of such anger and listen to him say delirious things that were awful to hear as he sat in the hospital months upon months getting treatment. The grandpa that I once knew and loved became a man that I seemingly didn't know anymore because of what the treatment had done to him. My mother and her siblings decided that they would just let him live out his remaining months that he had with us and eventually this became an issue of right ethics for them. That is because they seemed to wonder if they had made the right decision by doing this. And in the end they found out that they did. My grandpa passed away at peace with himself and his family, just as Brittany Maynard and Lovelle Svart did, although not in the exact same way. Having an experience like this makes me agree with right to die and assisted suicide more than other maybe do, and I do think that if conversations like this are expressed that people
We can see right in the Ten Commandments that catholics already oppose physician assisted suicide in the commandment of “Thou shalt not kill”. Even in the choice of taking a loved one off of a ventilator there are many questions that one asks themselves in the name of their faith and become very troubled because they watch a mother, father, or child suffer and fade from who they once knew. Lovelle Svart and Brittany Maynard are just two cases in which we can see the results of allowing PAS and giving these people the right to die and they have had positive results. The deaths of these people are not at all beautiful, but through their stories you can see their acceptance of death and how they have become at peace with themselves and their families. Brittany Maynard poses a great question, when speaking on death with dignity, stating “Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?” Why should she have to go and sit in a hospital on a machine that is keeping her alive but causing her extreme emotional and physical pain. Dragging her farther and farther away from who she once was, as she may forget who her own mother was even though she is standing right in front of her on the side of her bed. Why should that choice be taken away from someone? Even with having experienced my family having to make decisions like this before, I never …show more content…
It is easy to look at the benefits that would come from making this legal through the utilitarian ethics lense. Physician assisted suicide and right to die becoming legal would be the best outcome for the most amount of people. It is not only beneficial for the patient but also for the patient's family. I know this from experience because I had to watch my grandpa become a man of such anger and listen to him say delirious things that were awful to hear as he sat in the hospital months upon months getting treatment. The grandpa that I once knew and loved became a man that I seemingly didn't know anymore because of what the treatment had done to him. My mother and her siblings decided that they would just let him live out his remaining months that he had with us and eventually this became an issue of right ethics for them. That is because they seemed to wonder if they had made the right decision by doing this. And in the end they found out that they did. My grandpa passed away at peace with himself and his family, just as Brittany Maynard and Lovelle Svart did, although not in the exact same way. Having an experience like this makes me agree with right to die and assisted suicide more than other maybe do, and I do think that if conversations like this are expressed that people