The Argument Against Euthanasia In America

We did not have the chance to decide if we wanted to come into this world, so should we be entitled the honor of deciding to leave? Is it Euthanasia, pain or glory? As the American Anthropologist and Folklorist Ruth Benedict once wrote “The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers”. American’s culture war over medical euthanasia has been in the news since 1990’s and now in the 21st century, it remains a concern. In modern America, there was a time in the history of euthanasia that witnessed crucial changes to the nation’s moral values surrounding death and dying. Before, the twentieth century, the word “Euthanasia” was translated into “good death.” This was considered the process of making dying
The definition of euthanasia was part of a continued struggle conduct by opposing people that voiced profoundly different moral positions on the issues of death and dying. Euthanasia had become a highly emotional issue for biased groups with firmly dissimilar moral viewpoints about the policy future of America. On the find to over the struggle over national identity, individual’s position on euthanasia for the terminally ill have become more accepting and progressive, but there are still large groups of people who feel a moral obligation to oppose
Taking a human life achieves none of these objectives. Subsequently, helping to kill is the opposite of what medicine is and does. The Catholic Health Association of the United States and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops claimed (2002) “What virtually every state regards as a crime, indeed as a form of homicide, does not become “medicine” simply because the perpetrator is a doctor, the patient is terminally ill, or one state one state has decided to rescind its own criminal penalties for the act.” At the end of the day, euthanasia is still considered taking away a human