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Ethical Argument Against Euthanasia

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Euthanasia, do we have the right to die? Euthanasia, today, it is formally known as “mercy killing”, but how far is it correct to take one’s own life or someone’s life in order to escape from suffering. Some even calls it “death with dignity”. Should the right to die with dignity be as sacred as the right to life, that a person should be allowed to say “if I fall terminally ill, I do not want to go on life support, I do not want my life to be supported or enabled by a machine”. There has been many debates between pro-euthanasia and anti-euthanasia. Then there are religious concerns that “Life is a God given gift and should therefore be treated with reverence and is not our own to take”. I did …show more content…

1. Ethical argument- that the people should have the freedom and right to choose that includes the right to control their own body and life (if there is no harm to any other person’s rights), they argue that euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (PAS) contend that terminally ill people should have the right and freedom to end their pain and suffering with dignified and compassionate death and that the state should not create any laws that prevent people being able to choose how and when they die, and that they should be able to do so with dignity. Their ideas put forward as part of the religious arguments against euthanasia and physician assisted suicide that they the concept of “quality of life” be more important than “sanctity of life”. The ethical argument suggest that life should only be continue as long as a person feels their life is worth living. Any religion be it Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity puts love and compassion at top and keeping someone in pain and suffering is not loving, It is evil. Euthanasia can be loving action and a way of putting agape love into practice. God gave us free will so we should be allowed to use our free will to decide how and when our …show more content…

As far as India is concern, the legal position on euthanasia, it is quite evident that euthanasia is illegal. The position in this regard in other countries is different from India. Efforts to change government policies over Euthanasia in the 20th century have met limited success in Western countries. The policies of euthanasia have also been developed by a variety of NGOs, most notably the medical associations and advocacy organizations, as of 2015, euthanasia is legal only four countries have legalized some of euthanasia, these countries are Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. And 9% of death in Netherlands resulted from euthanasia. Assisted suicide is now legal in Germany, Switzerland, Albania, Japan, Columbia and it’s legal in the five US states of Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico. However the Indian law on the aspects of euthanasia and assisted suicide is concerned, it is crystal clear that abetment of suicide and attempt to suicide is an punishable offence under Section 305, abetment of suicide of child and insane people, Section 306, abetment of suicide and Section 309 attempt to commit suicide, of the Indian Panel Code (IPC) and after the Supreme court’s landmark judgment in Gian Kaur v. State of Punjab that, it is now settled that “right to life” guaranteed under Article 21 of the constitution does not by any stretch of

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