Euthanasia is the act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition. There are many ill people being treated in hospitals and many different medical facilities. Do the patients families or doctors have the right to decide when to end their lives? Or is this decision left to the tormented patient to make?
When making such a decision, things such as financial considerations for the family of the patient or the hospital should be valued against human life being disposed of.
Another issue is the patient feeling that he or she has become a “burden” on his or her family thinking it is best for him or her to commit euthanasia.
There are two types of euthanasia, voluntary and non-voluntary. Euthanasia is voluntary when the patient himself asks to be put out of “his misery”. Non-voluntary is when he is forced to do so under medical supervision. In euthanasia, it is not about giving the patient the right to die. In fact its about the right to kill that patient.
Euthanasia supporters often argue that it is permissible to take human life when necessary under severe conditions such as self-defense. However, history has taught us that taking human life is sadistic. That is the reason why only two countries in the world today permit euthanasia as a legal action. That is why almost all societies, even non-religious ones, for thousands of years have considered euthanasia a crime.
Euthanasia supporters usually argue that because modern medicine and scientific technology can predict the life expectancy of a particular patient, they have the right to decide when a patient should be euthanatized. Some people diagnosed as terminally ill do not die for years, if at all, from the diagnosed condit ...