Against Legalization of Euthanasia

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Debate about the legality and morality of Euthanasia has been a phenomenon since time immemorial. How can it be lawful to let a patient to die slowly and painless through a lethal injection thus saving his/her family from yet another ordeal to add to what has already befallen them? It is very difficult to find a moral answer to this question. Euthanasia is a process of ending a person’s life in order to relieve them from an unbearable pain, irreversible comma or an incurable disease. Is it really right to help a patient end their suffering by helping them to die? In addition, does it morally wrong to keep a patient alive know that they will never get better and are in awful pain? It is the patients right to undergo or refuse any treatment and it is also their right to ask for Euthanasia or not to ask for, however, it should be determined that life is sacred and should be respected. The subject of ending a patient’s life with the reason that they are being relieved from their pain or there is no hope for their recovery is out of question. Therefore Euthanasia does not have a place in the human society and should not be legalized?
In any circumstance that entails ending a person’s life, there will always be a contending dilemma about what should and should not be done. Everyone has a right to live regardless of their situation and therefore, Euthanasia should not be legalized in order for all people to enjoy this right. According to Byock an American practicing Physician, Euthanasia is ending a patient’s life intentionally in order to relieve their pain from terminal illnesses or life injuries through lethal injection or suspension of treatment (Byock 34). Euthanasia should not be legalized because first, every human being has the ...

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...ng their lives to be taken a way by others. Euthanasia should not be legalized.

Works Cited

Schadenberg, Alex. Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Australia: Connor Court Publishing, 2013. Print.
Stefoff, Rebecca. Open For Debate: The Right to Die. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2009. Print.
Sullivan, Dennis. Euthanasia versus letting die: Christian decision-making in terminal
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Toombs, S. Kay. Living and Dying with Dignity. Elm Mott, Texas: Colloquium Press, 2010. Print.
Byock, Ira. The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life. New York: Avery Publishers, 2012. Print.
Pozgar, George. D. and Santucci, Nina. Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals (2nd Edition). Sudbury, Maine: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010. Print.

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