Ethical Issues Surrounding Euthanasia

No one can live forever, and death is inevitable but do we get to determine our own death sentence? Euthanasia is the term used to describe assisted suicide where medical personnel drug a patient to death due to the patients desire to end suffering brought on by terminal illnesses. It is therefore commonly associated with the actions in the healthcare industry, nurses and physicians, in which the patient wants to end the suffering because they’re in a state of pain and an incurable condition. Euthanasia is considered controversial due to the issues regarding medical, ethics, and moral issues. Death with Dignity goes against medicinal practices. It is unethical and an abuse of power. In the medical field, the person who can help decide someone’s

There are already people in the world who kill family members on “accident” because of a vase fortune or selfish cause, with this act it will become easier for those kinds of people to get what they want with no penalty. Money is just an object where you can get more of but a human life you can only get one. If a person just wants to end their life just because they can’t afford it that is no argument. A human life is not equated to any cost of money. Once euthanasia becomes legal, then the only difference between an act of killing a patient and an act of murder is whether or not the patient consented. Killing is unnecessary once we take a life without cause what makes us as humans value another human. Choosing to take one’s own life demeans the value of human life. Once we start to get into that habit of killing each other off because someone cannot take it what will

In our world there are a lot of good people but around those nice group of people there are always a few that are not so nice. It is those kind of people that will take advantage of the sick and ill people. Besides friends and family to worry about there are also some unethical doctors out there that will help patients die for the wrong reasons or if any. During recent studies in the Flanders region of Belgium it was found that in “32% of all euthanasia deaths were done without explicit request, 47% of all euthanasia deaths were not reported as euthanasia and that nurses are euthanizing their patients, even though that in Belgium the law states that the act of euthanasia should be the job of the doctors.” For most of the time when people say that they want to kill themselves one can say they are not thinking straight because of the stress they could be in. The elderly or disabled people may not have the mental capacity to make such a big choice, and someone might take advantage of that