Arguments Against Euthanasia And Physician Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia, “also called mercy killing. The act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die,as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from incurable ,especially painful,disease or condition.” (Dictionary) . Physician assisted suicide is a personal choice patients in great pain chose to find relief. By law in most places of the world, it is illegal for a doctor to take part in helping someone end their own life. A doctor or physician can go to jail for many years or possibly even for life for doing what their jobs are supposed to be dedicated to - helping people. It should be common sense to realize it is one’s own civil right to decide what to do with his or her own body, life, and fate. If a person would
rather die then put not only themselves but also their family through days, months, or even years of unbearable suffering; it should be okay for society to accept and respect their decision (Death) .It is horrible to think about how people forcefully have to go through unimaginable pain physically and mentally just because the law does not let them have a dignified and painless death practiced by a doctor. They are trapped in their own bodies, helplessly.
“A law which does not make anybody do anything that gives people the right to decide and prevents the state from prosecuting you for exercising your freedom not to suffer, violates somebody else’s constitutional rights is insane” was brilliantly said by Geoffrey N.Fieger (Cotton).
People who are fatally sick should be able to die with dignity . For some, choosing their death is the last act of independence they can take since it can get to the point where controlling their own body is not an option anymore. Not being able to eat, use the bathroom or even the do simplest task as breathing can be frustrating and depressing. Being able to say no to all the suffering is the last grasp at willpower that they can have. “I Pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America. And to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under God. Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” (Francis) . Those who are suffering do not get the justice to chose over their life. The patients do not have the liberty to pursue their own happiness (Pledge)
. Additionally, the cost of living is very high. According to CBS News, “ Last year Medicare paid 50 billion dollars just for doctors and hospital bills during the last two months of a patient’s life - that’s more than the Department of the Homeland Security or the Department of Education.” ( CBS ). Furthermore, not only will the family of a person who has a terminal illness have to cope with the grief of losing a loved one, but it will also carry the burden of many expensive hospital bills afterwards ( Right ) . He or she would like their family to have as much consolation as possible, and going into debt because of hospital bills being piled up is not a form of it. One :own family struggle after they were gone and could not do anything to help them. Assisted suicide makes the whole process easier financially for the family and physically for the patient. It can come to the point where a person’s physical pain can be too much for them to handle. Assisted suicide can be the best option for someone who has a severe illness that not even the strongest of medicines could cure. For some suffering patients, medicine does serve its basic purpose in keeping them biologically alive. Unfortunately, this “ solution” is simply a means to survival rather than real living. Day after day they wake up more sick and weak; reminiscing over the days when pain was not what they woke to and ended it with. The option of dying peacefully and painlessly is more appealing than a long, exhaustively end. The feeling of being free is all the suffering ask for (Assisted).
Still some argue that assisted suicide should not be able performed due to the Hippocratic Oath that the doctors are obligated to pledge to.
“The oath makes the physician promise to relieve pain and not administer deadly medicine” (The Right). To a patient however, relieving pain would in their best interest. To them it would not be a form of deadly medicine but a more like a form of cure. Others would say that ending life can not be a way of improving it but for someone who actually has a dead illness ; the patient would think differently. For a person whose health will never return ; prolonging his or her life is just a form of torture (Guides) . Therefore physician assisted suicide should not be seen as the ending of someone’s life but instead be seen as the end of someone’s suffering and pain. As a person, one has the constitutional and moral right to over his or her body. If a person decides to die with dignity then rather have to go through months of misery. Then that is their choice. If a patient would want to spare their family of hospital debt. If the pain is too much for them to continue. Then that is their choice over their life. The terminally ill person’s decision should be respected just the same as the healthy person’s decision is
respected.