euthanasia
To Die: It is a legal Right
The origin of euthanasia comes from the Greek word “Euthanatos” which is the combination of the Greek “eu” that means “good” and the death god in Greek mythology, “Thanatos”(“Euthanasia”). Like the nuance of original compound of euthanasia, a death can bring some positive effects for a human life especially when people suffer from some painful and incurable illnesses. As a creature that thinks and decides independently, getting a critical illness makes people feel that they lose the power to control their own life, because many things that they have done and enjoyed normally can become impossible according to their physical or mental condition. For example, if a person has pancreatic cancer, which is one of the most painful illnesses, the person may consider committing assisted suicide as an option, because of the huge pain. The most important thing that we care about is how we make our life qualified, not prolonged and quantified. Thus, the U.S. government should legalize euthanasia.
In fact, the present controversies about euthanasia have evolved and expanded for a long time especially since the precedent of Holland in 1994. According to Sanguk Kim, “One of the most famous cases of euthanasia is that a Dutch woman who had had a hard time from her heavy depression died after she took lethal dose of sleeping pills which she got from her psychiatrist. In this accident, the supreme court of Netherland brought in a verdict of guilty for the psychiatrist but didn’t pass a sentence, because they judged that the legislation of right to die can apply to the case of a critical situation that people could fall in, which is not only physical condition but also mental status.”(“Controversies”) This precedent broadened the scope of euthanasia from passive euthanasia, which generally gets rid of the equipment of patient and didn’t get a huge resistances, to active euthanasia, which usually injects poison by doctors and have become a lot of
The origin of euthanasia comes from the Greek word “Euthanatos” which is the combination of the Greek “eu” that means “good” and the death god in Greek mythology, “Thanatos”(“Euthanasia”). Like the nuance of original compound of euthanasia, a death can bring some positive effects for a human life especially when people suffer from some painful and incurable illnesses. As a creature that thinks and decides independently, getting a critical illness makes people feel that they lose the power to control their own life, because many things that they have done and enjoyed normally can become impossible according to their physical or mental condition. For example, if a person has pancreatic cancer, which is one of the most painful illnesses, the person may consider committing assisted suicide as an option, because of the huge pain. The most important thing that we care about is how we make our life qualified, not prolonged and quantified. Thus, the U.S. government should legalize euthanasia.
In fact, the present controversies about euthanasia have evolved and expanded for a long time especially since the precedent of Holland in 1994. According to Sanguk Kim, “One of the most famous cases of euthanasia is that a Dutch woman who had had a hard time from her heavy depression died after she took lethal dose of sleeping pills which she got from her psychiatrist. In this accident, the supreme court of Netherland brought in a verdict of guilty for the psychiatrist but didn’t pass a sentence, because they judged that the legislation of right to die can apply to the case of a critical situation that people could fall in, which is not only physical condition but also mental status.”(“Controversies”) This precedent broadened the scope of euthanasia from passive euthanasia, which generally gets rid of the equipment of patient and didn’t get a huge resistances, to active euthanasia, which usually injects poison by doctors and have become a lot of
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