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Thomas Hobbes Arguments Against Euthanasia

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"Better life is to die, than to live while dead." (Quevedo) Is it worth to survive our last days experiencing only suffering? Why can’t we have a peaceful transition to the afterlife? If we have an option to stop our presumably unstoppable suffering, why can’t we take it? The Cambridge Dictionary defines euthanasia as the act of killing someone who is very ill or very old so that they do not suffer anymore. Ending our lives at our will when we do not want to carry on with a disease generates a controversial moral dilemma concerning even our own religion, making the decision one of the most important in our lives or our relatives’ if we are not able to decide by ourselves. The right to die should be enshrined in law because people must be able to decide whether they want to continue with their life or end it if they are experiencing physical suffering. …show more content…

When someone is facing death, we do not want to lose them from our lives, we only want them to stay. That logic is completely understandable, but we are not thinking in the welfare of the sick person, who is exhausted of having to see their grieving family or the constant pain. This behavior is called psychological egoism and is found in Thomas Hobbes’s most famous work, Leviathan. In his book he stated that “no man giveth but with intention of good to himself; because gift is voluntary; and of all voluntary acts the object to every man is his own pleasure.” This quote means that we don’t give things expecting nothing in return, but so that we can feel the pleasure of our selfish acts and own

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