Thursday, March 12, 2009

Euthanasia

I personally feel that assitanting in someone's suicide doesn't make it a suicide at all but more a homicide. However, i agree with Oregon's way of dealing with a situation like this. They allow doctors, not regular citizens, to help terminally ill people kill themselves.
The word terminal is a key word. If doctors give the patient six months to live and they are truly in pain then i believe that could be an acception. I feel that otherwise, taking someones life into your hands by helping them kill themselves is just unmoral. Its not assisting in a suicide but commiting a homocide.
Plus, you're unsure of whether or not the patient will get better. Ending a life becuase of a medical condition is a grave decision that should involve a doctor. One doctor explained that one patient made a "remarkable recover" and was cancer-free at the time of his suicide. This is an example that proves that having the "right to die" could be a mistake on both the client and the assistant.

1 comment:

  1. This is a complicated issue with which we as Americans seem unable to come to a consensus, unlike European countries.

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