Arguing in Favor of Euthanasia

"I saw a patient swaying in bed, pain - it seems not to be what God wants. Although medical technology can save lives, life is not necessarily worthy." -37 ). Euthanasia means "good death" or "gentle death" in Greek. Although it was originally used by elderly people, they can deliver in a peaceful and painless way in their comfortable environment without depending on maintaining artificial life (Young).

On the contrary, many people support euthanasia and help suicide. In fact, euthanasia is normally legally enforced in the Netherlands. Euthanasia can be regarded as a method of easy death if you suffer from an intractable disease. In 1991, an estimated 516,170 Americans died of cancer. If 5% of these people died of severe pain, this exceeds 25,809 deaths due to painful death, but this can be alleviated by assisting suicide. This statistic clearly shows that in the field that the medical field could be treated, quite a few people are suffering from painful death. The choice of euthanasia and peaceful death should be presented correctly if the patient is both physically and mentally competent and can consistently understand their delicate state.

Doctor-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia are one of the most controversial issues confronting the medical community. Many scholars agree with 1 or oppose "death by aid" because these interventions are called euphemically. These arguments usually take the assumption that the person performing euthanasia is a doctor. Recently, two ethicists at Harvard Medical School advocate this hypothesis, but they believe that the role of doctors in supporting death is limited 3. In professional discourse, the possibility to exclude doctors from the equation is certainly not very noticeable.