The Ethics Of Euthanasia And Assisted Suicide

Imagine you were lying in your bed, cold and in pain, and there were no medications or treatments that could help you. Wouldn’t you want to make the lingering pain go away, forever? Euthanasia gives people the option of ending their suffering. There’s a good and a bad side to it; however, the positive outweighs the negative. Although it involves death, it comes with good intentions. It relieves suffering and allows people to pass with dignity. This makes euthanasia ethical and appropriate.

Euthanasia is the subject of strong debate in America. It gives people the choice to end suffering, or even to stop atrocious people from doing scandalous things. G. C. Bulai Antoniu explains, “Euthanasia is deliberate killing committed under the impulse

For example, a 71 year-old woman, suffering from Waldenstrom’s disease, had the decided to use this method of escape. Waldenstrom’s disease is a “rare cancer of the bone marrow that impedes and eventually destroys the production of vital components of the blood supply.” She had months, maybe weeks to live. She had a choice between either taking a deadly poison, or being injected with special syringes. The first choice was risky, and painful. However, the second choice involved two injections, and was more certain. The first injection induces the patient into a deep coma, and the second relaxes her muscles, which then stops the

Of course, the person whose life is being taken has to be willful, and conscious. Euthanasia should only be considered if the person is aware of the situation. Also, they should be able to choose the way they would like to go. For example, if the person is in a coma, assisted suicide shouldn’t be an option. It’s a different circumstance if the person is on trial for committing heinous crimes. Then, and only then, should it be up to the law to decide whether or not that person gets to live. Euthanasia is all about choice, and logic.

A concept as big as this has to be logical because it based solely on life or death, and whether or not it is justifiable. It takes a lot of time and thinking. Death is an unalterable decision. Euthanasia should only be an option when it’s in an innocent person’s favor, or if the person has done injustice by the law.

In the end, euthanasia (if used with good reason) is completely understandable. No one can truly understand what it’d be like unless they were in a critical situation such as these, in which an individual would choose to end their own life. Seneca insisted that "a man is bound to justify his life to others, his death only to himself." This easily connects to “the right to respect and guarantee the individual's autonomy, the self-determination of the subject with regard to his own body (Diaconescu, 2012).” Euthanasia gives some individuals the chance of their “happy ending,” and I can respect