Argumentative Essay: Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide

The United States Declaration of Independence states "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (1776) as being three natural rights that every human being is entitled of having. For decades euthanasia has been a controversial topic, both between the common people and expert in the health field. Even though this topic has been talked about for decades, today we are living in a time where modern medicine is able to prolong the life of individuals that was not even imagined in the past. "With the amount of respirators and other apparatus at our disposal, it is almost impossible for most patients to die unless doctors’ or patients’ families end life support. The withdrawal of treatment, therefore, is now perhaps the most common way critically

"The right of a competent, terminally ill person to avoid excruciating pain and embrace a timely and dignified death bears the sanction of history and is implicit in the concept of ordered liberty. The exercise of this right is as central to personal autonomy and bodily integrity as rights safeguarded by this Court's decisions relating to marriage, family relationships, procreation, contraception, child rearing and the refusal or termination of life-saving medical treatment"(ACLU Amicus Brief in Vacco v. Quill, 1996). Pain is something that only the person being affected that feel. No one else but he /she can determine if the decision to end their suffering is the right one or not. We as humans have a natural drive for self-preservation. This means that a decision as big as choosing to end one’s life is not usually taken lightly. This is a decision that usually many months to reach to, it's usually talked about between patient and doctor and family

The idea that we must endure untold pain because the lord wields it is an outdated one and should be rethinked. "We call on Catholics, and on all persons of good will, to reject proposals to legalize euthanasia (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1991). This believe that allowing a human being to suffer for no reason, even though their life will innately come to an end is an immoral one. Furthermore, another reason some people may argue against euthanasia is because they just view it as murder, that no matter the case some people don’t think it’s right or moral for one person to assist an ill person to put an end to their suffering. Also, another reason why people don’t want euthanasian to become legal is because they believe that the laws in place to regulate practices that perform the procedures will be harder to regulate. “People worry that whatever regulations are put into place they won't stop patients, particularly vulnerable ones, being pressured to choose death when they would rather live for a few more weeks