Arguments Against Euthanasia Under A Microscope

Euthanasia Under a Microscope

Euthanasian was first introduced to the world in the 5th century and has stirred up quite a debate ever since then. Euthanasian can simply be defined as when a medical professional uses lethal injection to end the patient’s life, but only if they are formally diagnosed with a terminal illness. A patient must undergo extensive medical testing to qualify as a candidate and it must be presented either before or at the time of the procedure. A few terminal illnesses that qualify patients for assisted suicide include: cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, etc. These illnesses qualify for euthanasia because not only do that have low life expectancy rates, they’re also extremely painful. Since the debate is a national argument, only certain states in the United States of America legally offer this procedure to their terminally ill patients. The

If a person is terminally ill and in pain, they should get to decide their own death because they do own the rights to their own life. Nobody can force a person to want to live if they really don’t want to, especially if they are suffering because they physically hurting. Also, nobody knows exactly how much pain a person if suffering from, besides that individual themselves, so nobody has the right to speak for them. In a way, euthanasia gives people back a sense of control in their life that their illness took away from them. They feel as though they have become their illness and it has taken over their body and that they no longer have control. The one aspect of their life they do get to control though, is their own death. In some cases, people don’t even like to include the word “suicide” when referring to euthanasia because they don’t believe the two terms are relevant to each other. One term is a medically established word and the other is