Animal euthanasia

EUTHANASIA – IS IT NECESSARY? Introduction In recent years, euthanasia of pets such as cats and dogs have become more prominent in the lives of the general public. We are now seeing posts on social media that cry out for our help to end the euthanizing of dogs and cats in shelters in the nation. A specific post may come to mind; the one where euthanizing dogs are lined up in the hallway of a shelter, those dogs being the ones euthanized only that day. Earlier this month, a lady by the name of…

Universal Ethical Egoism is defined to be a theory where all humans should live and act in their own self-interest. Universal Ethical Egoism can be applied through Euthanasia as any human being from a family or not has the choice to whether to end their life, depending on what they think is best for them. If he/she isn’t happy with their life they will choose to end their personal suffering, only if they think it is the best outcome for them. Act Utilitarianism allows an individual to develop…

After living through everything life has thrown at him, a man is diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. He only has months left to live. Although those months will be filled with constant agony, he must suffer through them. His family must suffer through it. Instead of welcoming the end of life in peace, he will be immobile and uncommunicative. It will be a terrible process leaving everyone involved distressed. Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor helps end the patient's life. It…

Milan Kundera, a Czechoslovakian author, declares, “Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.” Kundera argues that humans should have the right to die mercifully death, like dogs. However, not everyone agrees with Kundera and they believe that all life holds value and should not perish. Consequently, if someone assists another in the death of a sick…

don 't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life. '” (Toews). For many years, those dubbed with the burden of cancer and other terminal illnesses have to suffer through a slow and painful death in the end. However we respect animals with these illnesses more than our own kind by putting them out of their misery. What if we can treat ourselves with the same…

or breathe on their own, but it is not widely offered in the United States, with only two states fully allowing the practice. While some may call assisted suicide euthanasia, they are both quite different from each other. Assisted death puts the ability to end the life into the hands of the person who is requesting it, while euthanasia is a third party method that does not allow for the patient to decide for themselves. Assisted death allows for the patient to receive the means to end their life…

The animal problem in Caldwell County is euthanization. Too many cats and dogs are being killed because of animal overpopulation. Numbers have been declining since 2011, but in 2013 still 2,902 animals were euthanized. The Caldwell County Animal Shelter is a contributor to this problem. To solve the problem of innocent animals being put down, a no-kill policy should be enforced. This includes ending euthanization and preventing animal overpopulation. Stopping the euthanization in the shelter…

Assisted suicide or the right to die is an extremely controversial topic that has been talked about for decades. Assisted suicide is for terminally ill patients that know they will never win their battle and want to pick when and how they die, which is often used before their disease becomes intolerable. Over the last couple years this controversy has had a lot more media coverage because of people working to give it the attention that it needs. In the United States more people have been on the…

removing Terri feeding tube. Euthanasia or better known as assisted suicide is “the act or practice of causing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy” and can be categories as non-voluntary, involuntary, and voluntary or passive, and active. Involuntary euthanasia is conducted without consent; voluntary…

Often referred to as euthanasia, mercy killing is the practice of taking one's life out of misery. This method is usually used for patients who have incurable diseases and would rather have a painless death than, over a long period of time, suffer. Euthanasia even traces back to as far as the ancient Greeks and Romans in 5th Century B.C. Although prohibited, many physicians gave poisons to their patients anyways. Drawing back to present time, only a handful of countries and U.S. states allow the…