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 29th 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.
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