Arguments Against Euthanasia In The United States

One of the big arguments against euthanasia is that it’s irreversible: Once the patient is gone, we’ll never know if their unexpected recovery was just around the corner, or if they might have gone on to lead full and happy lives despite their illness. However this argument is made in ignorance of the statistical data. The fact is, recovering from a terminal illness is so improbable it's like a slap to the face of reason. Combine this with the fact that euthanasia is - in most countries where it is legal, reserved for the terminally ill. The final stop before death. In 1991, a Dutch report into euthanasia found that in 86 percent of cases, euthanasia shortened life by a maximum of a week and usually only a few hours. In words, it was a last resort—an escape

However, there’s no getting around how absurdly expensive end-of-life care is in the world. The upshot of this is often crippling debt for the families of terminally ill patients, with the care of a single individual at the end of their life costing an estimated $39,000. For 40 percent of households, the bill exceeds their financial assets. This might be acceptable if end-of-life care was worth the money, but it’s objectively not. Doctors will readily attest to the ability of modern medicine to slightly prolong life—at the cost of totally destroying its quality: End-of-life care is often brutal, nasty, traumatic, and very expensive, putting patients through long stretches of unnecessary suffering just to give them an extra month or two. And when the terminally ill patient undergoing these nasty, expensive treatments has repeatedly insisted that they’d rather be dead, you have to start wondering who all this expenditure is really benefiting.Did you know, the percentage of the public, who support euthanasia for the terminally ill, is 86%? So if the public support euthanasia, why hasn't it been