Decisions
Should it be your choice to end your life? No matter if it is abortion, cloning, or life and death, life is still about making choices. No one will be ever one hundred percent agreeable on the choices that someone makes. There are many Philosophers who will continually argue or debate what is right and wrong. There are families who will disagree, or courts that make the decisions on a loved one’s life. Some people having living wills on what they want for end of life care or of it would happen unexpectedly. It is still a strong debate amongst people when it is Active and Passive euthanasia. Active Euthanasia is when one takes action, such as using lethal injection. A Passive Euthanasia is when someone doesn’t intervene; as such a hospital does nothing to further to save a person’s life which is called the DNR code status. Are these choices different? I don’t think so even James Rachels doesn’t think so either. The first debate comes from the American Medical Society. They state, that the intentional termination of the life of one human being by another is mercy killing. Rachels argued that it might lead to decisions concerning life and death made on irrelevant grounds. I agree that their needs to be certain circumstances to a situation and for doctors and the (AMA), should revise.
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Again, I believe that a person who is capable of making a decision that is of sound, mind, and body, and within reason, has the right to make certain choices. Many people believe that life is a gift from god, god would not want to see innocent people suffer. I think that it is very ethically wrong for someone in this situation to suffer, and morally, I believe a doctor would be doing the right thing for his/her