Exploring the Legalization of Euthanasia: A Closer Look

Should we legalize euthanasia in our society?

Euthanasia despite having its general un-appeal is supported by many people in society, because it allows us to have freedom of choice in life. The individuals are spared the misery of a disease that is incurable. The people can overcome the pain and torture leading to an inevitable death. Euthanasia might seem like running away from the problem at hand. However, we must realize that many people face outcomes where they suffer and are literally tortured until they die. Cases such as various forms of cancer come to mind. In these cases the people know the end is coming, all this pain, and suffering will lead only to death 's door. The human body on its own is unable to fight and stop cancer. People

We are not God or nature, so we cannot have the power to decide the fate. This tends to be a strong religious perspective since euthanasia consists of the same act as suicide does and this is a sin, therefore the person will never go to heaven. Also another issue when it comes to religion is that the Doctor allowing this to happen gives an injection that basically kills another human being, so for some people this is murder and also a sin. It is a common belief that the person could change their mind after the injection is made, there would be no going back, their freedom would then be taken from them in that moment and they would lose control over their life. For many other people it is also deemed unnatural, we cannot decide what Mother Nature has in store for us, meaning we cannot choose and alter our fate. Our body must die on its own when the time comes and when it is meant for our bodies to

I know that this is true, because I have personally known someone who had serious cancer. My childhood friend’s mother who was the most precious person in the world to him developed it when he was in middle school. I knew him back in elementary school, we basically grew up together; I knew how much he loved her and how much she suffered in those years. He felt helpless he could do nothing to help her. In our senior year of high school, she died after a long, painful battle of six years. This shattered him, not only did he lose his mother, she suffered so much and he suffered with her only to ultimately lose her in the end. I remember him telling me how he did not want her to suffer; she was tortured so much she did want to live like this. If she had the choice of euthanasia, she would have asked for it, because it would have given her control over her life and it would have possibly not damaged her son so deeply. He visited her everyday only to watch her in misery and cry by her side, year after year the symptoms only kept getting worse. She would have still died by euthanasia and this would have hurt him, but at least she would have been in a comfortable and sane state at the time of her death. She would have been able to give her son a strong