3 in 4 members of the general public believe that euthanasia should be legal. Over fifty percent of medical professionals are for patients having the right to end their life. Despite this overwhelming support, doctors still allow patients to be in inescapable pain for their last days. Would you wish pain on your loved ones, or would you have them die with dignity? And besides, euthanasia prevents families from wasting their money on treatment that won't work, and the current Australian law encourages illegal euthanasia, so even if you don't believe that euthanasia is right, would you rather have regulations on it, or none at all?
The main problem with euthanasia is that people don't understand it. The argument that it may become murder if not used correctly seems to be popular, and while this does hold some merit, it is not unlike that of a doomsday cult that predicts time and again the end of the world, only for followers to discover the next day that things are pretty much as they were. We need the evidence that shows that horrible consequences are likely to occur. The possibility that such consequences might occur, as noted earlier, does not constitute such evidence.
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Patients who are terminally ill or those who suffer from incurable diseases can choose to get medical attention but that would be eventually futile since the person will not be saved. One would simply prolong the life of suffering and pain while spending a lot of money. There are thousands of cases involving a family has gone bankrupt to ensure medical care for a terminally ill person, or to keep up the treatment for an incurable disease. Prolonging such lives would only lead to heartache, financial challenges, and eventual futility. Instead, euthanasia allows peaceful death in a medically monitored environment. The person suffering would not suffer. The family or loved ones to be bereaved will not spend a fortune which would yield them no