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Mill's Argument Against Euthanasia

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Individuals should not be permitted by law to choose when they die.

During 2003, Deng Shaobin, who was totally paralyzed, has repeatedly demanded that he want to die with dignity. The issue of euthanasia has drawn social concern. Some people think that euthanasia should be legal because people have the freedom to choose how they treat their lives and some people think that life is important and should not be easy to take away.

In terms of Utilitarianism, euthanasia can bring the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people. Bentham and John Stuart Mill, for example, will certainly support euthanasia as legitimate. Utilitarian advocates the pursuit of maximum happiness, a theory that considers benefits as perfection, believing that …show more content…

Patients who are suffering from a long-term disease is tortured by paralyzing, therefore euthanasia can help them the relieve pain. In addition, patients will become a burden on families and society. Families need to worry about their illness and need to pay their medical bills. The hospital needs to provide these patients with resources. Bentham and Seoul will think that if patients choose euthanasia, it can avoid family conflicts and save medical resources, which can create more happiness for more people.

However, I do not agree with them. It is too selfish if I only focus on the family and society. It is immoral to give up life according to the greatest happiness. Morally, happiness and pain reduction are the only moral principles, as well as freedom, justice, and human rights. Daniel Callahan criticizes those who support euthanasia for giving up certain patients from the point of view of resource allocation, making limited social resources more efficiently, and turning right to die into death.Duty to a group of people who are deemed not worth living to make or label. (-- removed HTML --) >, Zeng …show more content…

The doctor knows he is will die soon no matter how he saves him. Because the doctor doesn't have any drugs to reduce pain. In order to release his pain, the doctor shoots to kill him . In the matter of that, people who are disabled congenitally or caused by illness or injury, are allowed to die, and which is against the patient ‘s will. And how to clarify the patient can be saved or not is hard to define, the doctor may misjudge the patient ‘s situation and there could be other methods to sustain his lives. In this circumstances, there is no difference of involuntary euthanasia between killing, so euthanasia could not be legalized as a

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