Euthanasia should be legalized in Australia for a couple of reasons. Legalizing euthanasia make a lot of economic sense. If one has the right to live then one should have the right to not have that life if one wishes so. The alternative options are simply too horrifying and euthanasia is just a more humane thing to do than keeping a person who is terminally ill and undergoing incurable, excruciating pain, alive.
Most people would be shocked to think economics factored into their life-or-death decisions, and justly so. However, there’s no getting around how absurdly expensive end-of-life care is in Australia: According to news.com.au, one in every 6 Medicare dollars spent goes to the five percent of recipients in the last year of their life.
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If one assumes that every human being born into this world has the right to live, then it logically follows that every human being has a right to end their life, in other words, every human being on this planet has the right to die. As death is a part of life, as every human being has the right to live, then a logical conclusion can be reached that every human being has the right to not have that life. Thus, any law upholding a person's right to life is naturally upholding a person's right to die; otherwise it would not be a right to life in the truest meaning of that term. Recently in USA, a terminally ill woman, who was technically alive even though her brain was dead (the condition is known as persistent vegetative state), was kept alive for 13 years. The government of USA stepped in to deny the woman a dignified death (euthanasia) sought by her husband in accordance with the woman’s wishes. Should the government, or anyone else for that matter, have the right to prolong one’s life by artificial means whether one desires it or not? No. No one should have the right to go against a person’s wishes who is in a similar position, where death would be preferable and more