Although care options for terminally ill patients are very limited, it is up to the patient and their loved ones to make it their priority to decide which care option is best. While assisted suicide has often came up for debate for the best option with the least amount of pain and suffering, Wesley Smith believes otherwise and has a very different opinion. He believes in giving terminally ill patients the best options that could have less suffering and prolong their life for many more years. He goes up to debate with Arthur Caplan who states that aid in dying should be considered and become a legal practice. Smith goes against Caplan’s argument by stating “we can validly criticize those who, for whatever reason, make it easier or acceptable
Though Singer raises a great argument on morality and famine, his obligations can be too demanding. How much can morality demand of us? His obligations limit our freedom to act and may even demand us to act in opposition to our interests as he demands that we must always make the morally utmost choice. Singer’s principle also will require us to not favor our moral concerns we may have. Also, if everyone were to follow their moral obligations, wouldn’t people have sacrificed much more than they needed to?
Euthanasia is ending a life on purpose to relieve someone from suffering. Similarly,
According to Rachels, allowing individuals to make decisions about their own lives, including the decision to end their own lives, is an essential aspect of respect for autonomy. Rule utilitarians might argue that respecting people's autonomy promotes overall happiness by allowing them to live according to their values and preferences. Additionally, allowing euthanasia is a way to alleviate suffering for individuals who are facing terminal illnesses or unbearable pain. Reducing suffering is a critical aspect of promoting overall happiness, and allowing euthanasia might be seen as a way to achieve this goal. Since no one is happy while suffering, they want to be alleviated from said suffering as fast as possible.
Therefore, supporting euthanasia is a stab in the back of our principle of doing no harm. My position is that reacting to a person’s pain by silencing their cries shows a lack of compassion or empathy or love for the human race (Polysyndeton). The fact, ladies and gentlemen, is that the request for euthanasia is mostly to relieve psychological suffering, as the physical pain can be minimized using medicine and palliative care. Minimizing psychological suffering can be done either by portraying the right attitude towards the patient or helping them come to term with their condition. Some might say doctors give drugs to patients to relieve pain and the patients eventually die.
Utilitarianism: Singer’s Double Edged Sword Abortion poses no ethical risk to humanity. Hence why there are strong supporters of abortion, such as Peter Singer. In his work, “Taking Life: The Embryo and the Fetus,” he favors of the ethics of abortion through his utilitarian views. That is, if the argument is seen through the lens of Prior Existence Utilitarianism. Undoubtedly, this is due to its counterpart: Total Utilitarianism.
When a patient in the direction of death, they should be able to die with dignity and peace. To end their misery is their way of dying with peace. Terminally ill patients are the ones with the pain, therefore be given the choice to end
There are real case incidents in which a 14 year old girl suffering from terminal cystic fibrosis is asking her country’s president for permission to end her life. She had self shot a video in which she says “I am tired of living this disease and she can authorize an injection through which I can sleep forever”. The girl's video has sparked a broader conversation about whether euthanasia should be legalized in the largely Catholic nation. According to me we should let euthanasia be legal as there is no significance in keeping them alive against their wish as we don’t know how much they are suffering. Another incident is where the woman moved to Oregon where euthanasia is legal to take advantage of Oregon’s death with Dignity Law.
And I want to die on my own terms” (p. 1). If given the choice, a person should be able to decide how they die. People do not enjoy seeing themselves become weak and helpless; no one should get to tell them how they die. People who are against euthanasia believe that it goes against all medical ethics and should not be legal anywhere, however, a doctors job is to help and provide care to patients. If they need help in having a simple peaceful death before they get so sick they are a completely different person, they should be given that
The argument that I am analyzing is found in Philippa Foot’s article Euthanasia. This specific section starts at the beginning on page 88. This argument starts once she talks about the true meaning of Euthanasia and the difficulty in how people see or perceive it. In Foot 's article, she wants to prove that an act of euthanasia is morally permissible, as long as you’re performing it for the right cause or reasons. Foot defines euthanasia as "a matter of opting for death for the good of the one who is to die."
Euthanasia Opposing Viewpoints)This supports the argument because the right to die at your own will should be a basic human right and a desion that someone else should not be a able to make for you But The laws against euthanasia are not in place to make people suffer. '' Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others.
Many pro-euthanasia believers will use the autonomy argument and debate the opinion that patients should have the right to choose when and how to they want to die. In an article in the Houston Chronicle, Judge Reinhardt ruled on this topic by stating “a competent, terminally-ill adult, having lived nearly the full measure of his life, has a strong liberty interest in choosing a dignified and humane death… (De La Torre).” However, dignity cannot be measured by the level of pain or the speed in which the individual dies, because it is already a characteristic of a person’s worth as a human being (Middleton). Allowing a patient to live their life to the fullest until the very end is surely a more humane and dignified death then cutting that life short in fear of what it is coming through the practice of euthanasia. While death for these patients can be a sad ending, it does not have to condemn a person to a remaining life of sadness and negativity.
One reason why patients would want to end their life with euthanasia is because of their disorders and immobility to get around and enjoy things. Euthanasia is a physician assisted
So I implore you, not to look at euthanasia as a choice between life and death, but a choice between peace and misery. Dying is not a
Imagine having to endure so much pain and suffering for a majority of your life that you would just want it all to end. Well, there is a way one can stop their own pain and suffering and it is called euthanasia. Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease. The act may only be done solely to those diagnosed with terminal illnesses such as cancer, aids, and heart disease. Many people agree with the idea of euthanasia as it can help those who are suffering be stripped of all the pain they are enduring.
