Biomedical Ethics Of Euthanasia

Most physicians practicing today have received a lot of a request for physician assisted suicide and euthanasia due to suffering from a terminally ill patient. Therefore, the question will turn to what should physicians do when patients choose to end their life. Should they accept or reject the patient autonomy? As we all know, suffering has always been a part of our human existence, and when someone requests to end their suffering, that means it will have the presence of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Obviously, end of life decisions regarding those conditions is particularly challenging in biomedical ethics because it is facing a hard problem that it is moral for physicians to help patients die. And when arguing about this topic

Autonomy states that each has a capacity for self-determined which they have the capability to make their own judgments, determining their own ends, and free to decide how they live their lives, while beneficence refers to an action taken for the benefit of others. Therefore, when we apply those principles into euthanasia, we can see there are many questions about that. For example, what should physicians do when the patient freely chooses to forgo all their best efforts and to embrace extinction? And what does respect for autonomy and the pursuit of the beneficence of life demand? To me, I think it is morally permissible to do euthanasia because I feel it will be more harm by keeping them alive, so these patients will continue suffering severe mental anguish. Hence, we should need to respect these patients’ autonomy if they request to die, but before accepting those request, physicians need to scrutinize the patient's medical history before deciding to avoid regrettable

According to what I know about the practice of euthanasia, not everyone who has a disease requires death, physicians will accept it. Physicians always look at the patient's medical history carefully whether the condition is not a cure and what the patient's condition is like before making the decision. They usually need to require an inquiry a discussion of the medical term and the doctor is treating the patient to determine is permitted to do euthanasia or not. After that, they will ask the patient or their family to sign the consent form and then report this case to the municipal pathologist. Obviously, practicing euthanasia for doctors is a hard work, because when we look at it in some aspects, many people will assume that this practice is not ethical regarding acceptance. It violates the laws and against the doctor’s duty to save people. Personally, I do not agree very much with this view, because I believe when physicians decide to perform euthanasia, they have carefully considered and they know what they should do for the patient, so I sympathize with