Euthanasia

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Everyone has experienced a moment where the pressure is just too much, the pain is too unbearable or nothing ever seems right. It is life, life contains hacks, trails and obstacles. It would not be life without it, the same concept goes for medical issues. J. Gay- Williams addresses the reasons euthanasia should not be an option to be legal in his essay. He justifies his reason for his position with the fact that illnesses are a part of life. Williams position of disregarding euthanasia is rational because a life is a valuable thing to waste or gamble with.

J. Gay-Williams, author of the essay "The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia" defines Euthanasia as. "intentionally taking the life of a presumably hopeless person. Whether the life is one's own or that of another, the taking of it is still Euthanasia." (704) Williams elaborates on the classification of Euthanasia by explaining its different concept. For example, death resulting in a terminally ill patient receiving the wrong dose of medicine. Is not considered Euthanasia. Also if a patient receives a treatment that the doctors believe will improve their condition. But instead causes the patient to die, this is also not an act of Euthanasia because the intention is to make the patient better. Williams explains in his essay that omission of treatment. That can potentially continue the life of a dying patient is passive euthanasia because:
"This phrase is misleading and mistaken. In such cases, the person involved is not killed(the first essential aspect of euthanasia), not is the death of the on intended by the withholding of extra treatment (the third essential aspect of euthanasia). The aim may be to spare the person more and unjustifiable pain, to save him from the indignities of ...

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...age of Euthanasia. The quality of health care will decline. Physicians will not try as hard to save their patients lives because their would be an easy way out. Those unfortunate patients that receive misdiagnosis would end their lives for no reason. Finally in a moral aspect, life is a precious gift and everyone has a purpose. Taking away someone's purpose unnecessarily would be cruel and selfish.

There is truly no satisfying benefit to implementing Euthanasia. If it becomes legal people's lives would end sooner than it needs to be and sometimes unnecessarily. If Euthanasia is not legalized, many people with justified reasons for ending their lives will continue to suffer and be unhappy by staying alive. Regardlessly, Williams point to not legalize Euthanasia is valid. Mainly because the enforcement of Euthanasia pose a greater treat than the absence of Euthanasia.

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