It is important that we understand why euthanasia is being offered, and why we should not judge. It should be legal because it allows the terminally ill to end there suffering without pain and on their terms. The discussion revolves around the right to life. Those who are against it argue that euthanasia breaks the terms on a person’s right to live. What they fail to see is that our life as human beings leads to death. Without death, there is no human life. Therefore for those that argue that everyone has the right to live, they should also agree that everyone has the right to die. Since we cant determine the course of our lives by our own will, we have the right to live our lives and determine our own course on how it ends. Naturally it follows that the same self-determining capacity we have as human beings, also gives us the right to determine how we die. …show more content…
The right to choose is fundamental and applies to all of the elements of human life. Which by the nature of human life, includes the right to choose how you die. A terminally ill individual who is currently under significant pain may choose to die with dignity, as it is there right. To deny this is to deny personal autonomy and that is an act that we cannot do. Simply, this is someones right to choose, as equally as they made there choices when faced with regular circumstances in life. In the case of euthanasia, we simply request assistance to arrange this right of choosing how to exit this world. Euthanasia helps the choice, making it in fact the compassionate and sympathetic choice to a person’s dignity. It is also important to note that those that argue to preserve life despite the patient being terminally ill and in extreme pain, are usually not the patients themselves, and therefore that opinion should not be recognized from the