Pro Euthanasia
If a person's dying process is troublesome, than the person should have the right to end it. BBC stated that suicide is not considered a crime, therefore assisted suicide should not be a crime. Assisted suicide is also known as euthanasia. Patients who are terminally ill and want to die ask their doctors for euthanasia to make their dying process faster and less painful. Assisted suicide is a health care service that should be provided to all people in critical conditions around the world because it stops them from suffering.
Euthanasia is a type of medical drug used to help patients die at ease. It can be prescribed to people, although there is a waiting period to get the prescription, and it must be reported to the authorities. If the waiting …show more content…
The first one is active euthanasia, which is when the patient is killed with an overdose of painkillers or other medicines that were meant to help them. Then there is passive euthanasia, which means the patient refused to take any of the medicines that were meant to help them. Active and passive were never deliberately announced by the patient that they want to die. Voluntary and involuntary on the other hand, are chosen by the patient themself, or family members. Voluntary euthanasia is when the person asks their doctor to kill them. Involuntary euthanasia is when the terminally ill person is too sick to make the choice of taking euthanasia so a doctor, family member, or close family friend had to make the …show more content…
65 year old Petra Brockmoller was diagnosed with cancer, and knows how she wants to die and when. Petra wants to die from euthanasia, and when she is still fully conscious and able to say her final goodbyes, not on her final stretch of cancer when she can barely move or talk. “I want to be the director of my own life and my own treatment.” Cancer patient remarks. In addition, Steve Barksby believes in euthanasia as well. “I want to be able to say goodbye to my friends and relatives and have the death of my choice. I do not want to be made to suffer the indignities I have seen my friends endure.”
Two doctors who provide euthanasia are Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Ted Goodwin. Dr. Jack Kevorkian was arrested in 1999 for videotaping himself giving a patient lethal injections. He was in jail for a minimum of ten years. In addition, Ted Goodwin was sent to jail for committing to many assisted suicides. These two doctors both became very interested in death. They believed that no patient should be dealing with unsettling pain when they only have a little bit longer to live. They committed many assisted suicides before being sent to jail and they were proud of the work they
Euthanasia is a type of medical drug used to help patients die at ease. It can be prescribed to people, although there is a waiting period to get the prescription, and it must be reported to the authorities. If the waiting …show more content…
The first one is active euthanasia, which is when the patient is killed with an overdose of painkillers or other medicines that were meant to help them. Then there is passive euthanasia, which means the patient refused to take any of the medicines that were meant to help them. Active and passive were never deliberately announced by the patient that they want to die. Voluntary and involuntary on the other hand, are chosen by the patient themself, or family members. Voluntary euthanasia is when the person asks their doctor to kill them. Involuntary euthanasia is when the terminally ill person is too sick to make the choice of taking euthanasia so a doctor, family member, or close family friend had to make the …show more content…
65 year old Petra Brockmoller was diagnosed with cancer, and knows how she wants to die and when. Petra wants to die from euthanasia, and when she is still fully conscious and able to say her final goodbyes, not on her final stretch of cancer when she can barely move or talk. “I want to be the director of my own life and my own treatment.” Cancer patient remarks. In addition, Steve Barksby believes in euthanasia as well. “I want to be able to say goodbye to my friends and relatives and have the death of my choice. I do not want to be made to suffer the indignities I have seen my friends endure.”
Two doctors who provide euthanasia are Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Ted Goodwin. Dr. Jack Kevorkian was arrested in 1999 for videotaping himself giving a patient lethal injections. He was in jail for a minimum of ten years. In addition, Ted Goodwin was sent to jail for committing to many assisted suicides. These two doctors both became very interested in death. They believed that no patient should be dealing with unsettling pain when they only have a little bit longer to live. They committed many assisted suicides before being sent to jail and they were proud of the work they