Euthanasia

Good morning class today I will be talking about euthanasia. Euthanasia is known as the practice of deliberately ending a life which releases an individual from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering.   This mercy killing is often referred as an easy and painless death.   This can be done from the request of a dying patient or that person’s legal representative.   When this is done it is known as Voluntary Euthanasia.   Not doing something to prevent someone’s death is known as passive or negative Euthanasia.   Active or positive Euthanasia is when someone takes deliberate action to cause a death.

Currently Euthanasia is not allowed by law to be practiced on people. I believe that Euthanasia should be legalised because the patients get to die in less pain and suffering as possible, and who would want to die in a lot of pain? the majority of the public believe that Euthanasia should be allowed and in a free society an individual should be able to choose their time of death.

Patients with such diseases as cancer should be allowed to choose their time of death.   This is because cancer is the most common cause of death in Australia, accounting for more than a quarter of all deaths. There is major pain that is associated with cancer sufferers and it is a severe form of chronic pain. Patients with advanced cancers often experience multiple symptoms like fatigue, weakness, mental haziness, anxiety and nausea. Many of these symptoms cannot be eliminated and any may widely affect the person’s wellbeing.   This can cause a major source of distress to the terminally ill and it can cause extremely unpleasant symptoms

This is where Euthanasia would be able to step in and with the request from the patient or their legal representative put a stop to their pain and suffering but only after they are sure that the patient has no chance for recovery. I also agree that special guidelines must be made to stop abuse from families that may profit from the death of a person....