Should Euthanasia be legalized? Explain with specific references.

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition of Euthanasia is “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma”. Euthanasia is also meant as mercy killing. It comes from the Greek, literally translating as “a good death”. According to the Independent UK, The Netherlands became the first country in the world formally to legalise euthanasia on the 29^th of November 2000. And now, euthanasia is also legal in the state of Oregon in the USA. Why people who are really sick would rather choose euthanasia than die naturally? Is it because of financial problem? Or they don’t want to suffer the pain of their disease anymore? Euthanasia should be legalized because of human rights and financial problem.

Human always got the right to choose when they are going to end their own life. For example, a patient who has to suffer the pain of their disease might have a choice to choose euthanasia to end his own life. They may choose euthanasia because there is helpless for their and they are slowly dying. Some people die in great pain and have no quality of life and it can be a great financial medical burden on some families and they may make their own decision for this very reason. On the other hand, there are some of the patient choose euthanasia to end their life, is not because of they can’t suffer the pain of their disease, but they don’t want to cause their family any more suffering even though they may not want to die. According to the law in Holland and some of the states in USA, patient got the right to choose euthanasia to end their own life. Some of the old patients could not handle the pain of their disease; doctor might suggest them to choose euthanasia. But there might be some of the family members persuade the patient to choose euthanasia, they don’t feel like choosing euthanasia but the family members forced them to choose it. In this cases showed that euthanasia is good for patients who can suffer the pain but is unfair for patients who got persuaded by the family to choose euthanasia.

There are a lot of patients who cannot afford their own medical fees, they end up choose euthanasia or suicide to settle down their financial problem. Nowadays, the medical fee has increase a lot compare to the pass few years due to the new technology of medical science. Patients need the new technology of medical science to survive their life, but they still have to face to the expensive medical fees which they could not afford. That is why a lot of patients choose to end their life easily, they just don’t want to suffering their family to earn more money and spend on their hopeless disease. This situation is same as people who cannot return money to the debtor, and they choose to suicide to escape from the debtor.

In conclusion, euthanasia should be legalized; it is because it will help the patients who cannot afford the pain of their disease or the medical fees. Euthanasia can take away a life easily but it can also take away the rough time easily. Although euthanasia will cause us lose a family member or friend, but we would rather seeing them pass away peacefully without any pain than suffering the pain of their disease every day. Because it is so hurt when seeing them suffering the pain but we could not help out anything for them, we could not share the pain with them.

Should Capital Punishment be abolished? Discuss.

Everyone has an indefeasible human right to live, even for those who commitfelonies. According to the facts about the death penalty from Death Penalty Information Centre in USA, there are 15 states without death penalties while the rest of the states are still carrying out death penalties and there are 1226 defendants that had already been performed capital punishments from 1977 to 2010. But, no matter whom we are and what reasons we have, we do not have the right to take away someone’s life. According to the Human Rights Act 1998article 2 – Right To Life, everyone thathas the right to life shall be protected by law, no one shall be deprived of his life intentionallyin the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law and also, deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary .From this article, we can see that the law is protecting human lives. Taking the life of a human is also nowhere economically efficient as it involves discounting the resources that has been put into rearing his life. It is so valuable, even the worst criminals should not be given death as punishments. Capital Punishment should be abolished because of human rights and retribution.

Human got the right to choose when are they going to end their own life. The value of life is priceless, this is because everyone’s life is given by their parents and everymother gives birth to her children after nearly ten months of pregnancy. If a defendant has to be executed with capital punishment, it is not only to execute the defendant; it would also break his/her mother’s heart. A child is important to every mother;she were trying so hard to keep her baby alive and healthy before and after giving birth, but due to her child being a murderer the law wants to execute her child, what do you think the mother might do? She might become psychoticor face deep depression, or waste their resources by trying every method to save their child’s life. Capital punishment may not only punish the criminal, but also their relatives too. What if your own child is going to be executed by law? What would you do?

Retribution is a punishment given to a person that fully deserved it. I believe that a person who committed felony should be given retribution that death is unable to fulfill. Murderers should get retributions by other means.It is because people that performed serious crimes should suffer far greater than the punishment of death. The fear of death may not be powerful enough to discourage potential criminals to avoid them. Therefore heavily painful punishments should be given, to a certain point where the criminals would demands for death instead. This action would effective deter a greater number of the population from performing felonies. Punishment by death also may also mean that many of them would escape from most of the aftermath of their crimes. The damage that they had done has to be repaid as well through further community work.

It has come to a time where death may not be enough to for retributions.The act of punishment by severe pain would give criminals family some relief, but instead it is worse than death itself to the criminals that were punished. As it is far greater than death, it should be effective in deterring future felonies while maintaining their lives in order for them to repay their debt to society. Death penalties are simply too light and are also economically inefficient. They are also against human rights (subjective or not).Therefore capital punishment should be abolished.

how can stress affect people in modern society

In this modern society, everyone is living under stress. Stress comes from anywhere, anything, anytime. You may feel stress when you are in a big or small trouble. According to Hans Selye, “adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive stress,” but it seems like most of the people could not adopt the right attitude, that is why stress also caused lots of suicide cases, because they don’t know how to release their stress? Or they just want to die, to escape from this stressful place? Nobody knows. Even now, I am having stress, all because of someone hacked my Gmail account and I could not log in into my Gmail and my blog until one of my friend help me to get back my Gmail account, this is almost made me feel stress to the max. So, these cases showed that stress affected people from many different things and is the cause of many problems in a person’s life. The stress of Health, finance, works, relationship, studies are the common stresses which affect people in this modern society.

Stress could affect people from their health. People feel stress when they could not do well in something. Some of them will get angry easily and yell to another just to release their stress, and some of them could not sleep well and eat well, these make them feel tired and weak, even dropping their hairs. Stress can make a person die. Every morning, when I start to read the newspaper, there must be at least one case about suicide or someone cut themselves because they feel stress and don’t know how to face it, so they chose to die. Quite a sad case when I read the article, stress is just like a murderer who can kill someone secretly and it need not to pay or suffer any punishment. Biting nails, cutting hands or legs by small knife, scratching finger, and so on are the actions they do when they feel stress.

Working people feel stress when they are the one who have to handle the finance problem of their family. They are trying their best to work harder to get more opportunity in their job so they could afford to give a good life to their family. Bosses always throw problems to the workers and workers have to solve it by the due date which bosses set, if they could not solve it, they might lose their job. This is the common case which caused them to live in a stressful working life. Working people feel stress when they could not bring bread home, and they have to suffer bloody scold by bosses or customers.

Relationship between friends, lover, and family causes lots of stress to people too, in this modern society. Relationship problems make people feel stress when they are facing some problems and could not solve it, for example, there was a male who only 22-year-old committed suicide because of his ex-girlfriend having a new relationship with another guy after few days they broke up. Argument is the main issue of stress of relationship, it is because people will argue with their lover, family or friends when they get angry or having problems. During the argument, there will be lots of irrespective words come out from their mouths; misfortunes never come singly, more problems coming toward to them. Sometimes, stress can cause them making wrong decision, and they might be regret after they decide to break up with their lover, or scolded their family members, or even losing a friend.

Students always have stress with their studies. It is because their parents want them to be good in studies and score high marks in their examinations or just a small test. Nowadays, parents are afraid that their children could not get a better pay in their future, due to lots of successful people in this modern society, and a lot of compete between children and teenagers. One of my friends is having melancholia, because her mother always pushes her to tuition centre, and lots of talent classes. She got no time to rest even on weekends she has to tuition from Monday to Friday, and having piano class on Saturday, ballet class on Sunday. And she cannot say no to her mother but just obey what her mother says. One day, she told her mother that she want to suicide, because she felt stress with all these classes and homework. From that day, her mother started let her do whatever she likes, and not dare to pushes her to do anything she don’t like.

In conclusion, we should not feel stress when we having problems in our life, but trying to solve the problems with a normal mood. People should keep their mood happily all the time no matter what problems they facing, stress could take away a life easily. Being happy and active are the ways to keep us away from stressful life. So people, being happy all the time, because no matter you are stress or happy, life still goes on, so why don’t we be happy? Times would not stop when you are upset or stress, choose a better way to face problems, be tough no matter what. Without stress, you will have a healthy life with healthy body and healthy mood if you change your mind now. 

Explain how people's differences in their definitions of success influence the way they lead their lives

          Success is important to everyone. Everyone wants to be success so they are trying hard to achieve it. We are surrounded by many examples of success. Johnny Depp , was a teenager who takes drugs, drink alcohol, and now he become a famous actor in Hollywood.  Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, who hailed from China’s Fujian province, was forced to leave school at the age of 16, after his father died, and began selling vegetable seeds to support his family, was one of Malaysia’s wealthiest businessmen, is best known for turning Genting Highlands, a hill outcrop just outside the capital Kuala Lumpur, into one of the world’s most profitable casino resorts. According to Abraham Lincoln, “always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing” So what’s the role of success play in your life? How do success influence the way you lead your lives? Materialistic, power and puritan are the ways that influence people's success throughout their lives.  

          Most of the people want to success in materialistic success. They want to have lots of luxuries stuffs to make their life better and luxurious. Some of them love to buy luxuries stuffs to release their stress and enjoy the time of buying things they like, because having things we like can make us happier and also a prove that how hardworking we are. But there are also some of them who love to buy luxuries stuffs because they just want to show off that they can buy such expensive things and they think that having luxuries things will make them look more high-class and grand. Even there are some of them could not effort to buy luxuries things, but they still act like they can buy it and owe a lot of credit card payment. For example, women and girls loves shopping, but girls are always envy that women can buy lots of branded heels, clothes, bags and so on, but they could not effort to buy any of them. So they keep trying to be a woman who earn lots of money and buy what they want to achieve their materialistic success.

            Power success is another success which everyone trying to achieve it. It is because power can control another person, just like managers can control what they want their workers to do for them, and the CEOs can control the whole company workers to do anything they want. That is why many officers work so hard to become the head of a team or manager or even CEO, and so on, just to prove that they can do well in their jobs and they don’t have to obey to what their boss order them to do. Power and materialistic are almost the same, because they want to be the one who choose the final decision but the one want to have to accept the decision which they don’t want to accept.

            There are also workers who work so hard because they want to prove that they can do everything and they are worthy to stay in their job.  This kind of success is puritan, it is because they are having the same mindset with puritan, such as often raised in an environment where they had to continually prove themselves. They dare to do something they can’t do, because they want to prove that they are not useless.

            We should work harder and find our goal to being success, so that we can get what we really need and what we really want. Success can make different to a person’s lifestyle, also can increase our motivation to achieve our goal.