Argument For Limited Euthanasia

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Euthanasia should only be used when it benefits the one who dies. It is a widely held belief that an act of euthanasia aims at benefiting the one who dies. It is morally wrong to engage in voluntary acts of euthanasia; it is morally wrong to engage in acts of non-voluntary euthanasia, and; it is never morally right to engage in acts of involuntary euthanasia. In situations where the patient is suffering when do you put the morally wrongs aside and help or get help in freeing yourself or a loved one from pain?

Euthanasia is legal in other countries because it is considered assisted suicide, but is considered illegal in the United States for the same reason when it could actually be a tool used regularly by doctors in most hospitals and hospice settings to end life in a way that is deemed painless and dignified.

Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The practice is illegal in most countries.

The will of a patient who is very ill to wish death rather than continue to suffer and be in pain should be one’s own choice. Some people who struggle with life just feel more at peace knowing euthanasia is an option.However an advanced illness that causes pain that cannot be tolerated by the patient can be a liable reason for euthanasia . Many opponents who have been a part of assisted suicide have thought many patients are poor, very old, or mentally ill but surprisingly it’s the patients who are better educated and well-off who are wishing for death. After euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002 there were 347 cases and in Switzerland they ranged from 300 to 350 a year but numbers continue to rise because people are traveling from countries where it...

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