You’re lying there, suffering, living a life of pain and agony. You see your friends and family around you, worried, in tears, after hearing about your misery. You have no control over your body, it isn’t responding to you, your inner workings are slowly, but consistently declining. There is no answer, no cure for your disease. Even when the time is good, life is a struggle.
Good evening/morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Nick and today I will be discussing the controversial issue on “Voluntary Euthanasia”. Now, let’s take a moment, to put yourself in a position, where you are the witness to someone in a state of anguish and suffering as I had described earlier. What would your thoughts be? You would want this person to be freed, to
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As of 2017 Australia has made $461 billion dollars, yes, quite a lot of money. But wait, we have gone past that, with our expenses of $484 billion dollars. Even with all the improvements, we are still in debt. Healthcare costs in 2003 and 2004, were approximated to be around $95 billion dollars, and it’s been on a steady increase, to being at $155 billion dollars in 2015. Of this $155 billion dollars, doctors and hospitals were paid $55 billion dollars, to prolong the death of those who were terminally ill. Why is this necessary? The Australian society can benefit greatly in the financial aspect of things, if we were to legalise voluntary euthanasia, $55 billion dollars can do a few things other than putting the terminally ill under immense pain, in the name of modern medicine. Countries such as Belgium, Colombia, France, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico alongside several other countries, have legalised voluntary assisted dying. These countries are experiencing the benefits which we, Australians are missing out on, living in a country with such modern assets, how hard is it to see past the prejudice views and take a step towards acting for dignity? The countries mentioned before could do it, why can’t