Imagine that you lying in a sterile hospital room, hooked up to machines and tubes, wracked with pain, and riddled with an incurable disease. Imagine that you have been diagnosed with the last stage of brutal cancer and every day you are aware that you are slipping a little more into dementia, soon to be a shell of your former shell and a financial, emotional, and physical burden on your closest loved ones. Is this how any of us want to imagine the end of our lives? I think I'm safe to say no, no one wants to die this way but it's a reality for thousands of people every day.
If there is no hope that cognitive-affective function will be restored, why not end the person's physiological function and thus terminate life with an injection of air or some other lethal procedure? Why must a family suffer as a loved one slowly and perhaps painfully wends his or her way to natural death. A gravely ill man lies in bed awaiting death. He exerts all his energy upon every breath he takes. One of life's agonies is waiting for it all to be over. Euthanasia aka mercy killing, a remedy for this man's unfortunate situation, could be his solution to happiness. Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly ending the lives of people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps.
Of course, pain plays a role in this matter. It's very difficult to function in everyday life when pain is a constant companion. To most people with any of these problems, in their point of view, value of existence can be low. Should people grasp onto life for as long as possible? The quality of life begins to get worse with pain and suffering, and it costs a lot of money to keep a person alive. The legal aspect of euthanasia is unfair, with abortion being completely legal, and mercy killing forbidden. All I can say is if a person is holding on to a terrible life of pain and discomfort, why should they have to wait and wait to have the torture an fullstop.
Death is a foregone decision. Every person deserves a choice to live or die. The natural fear people have of suffering and dying and when cure is no longer likely, there are only two alternatives: euthanasia or unbearable pain. People who wish to retain their dignity and choices at the end of life should have the option of a peaceful and gentle death. Euthanasia is one of the most important public policy issues being debated today. Is this a solution or a crime? The outcome of the debate will affect family relationships, interaction between doctors and patients, and concepts of basic morality. When it comes to people being a vegetable, brain dead, and out of loop, it is best to rid them of their misery than to keep them suffering. Think about it, would you really want to live your life as a vegetable?
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Hi,
I think the topic is a subject of a great debate and should be discussed with open mind without any pretension and reservations.
I agree, if the law cannot lessen the pain of the person who suffers from it, it has no rights to stop them to go to rest forever, on their will and the way they want.
I hope the world will get free from all the pains it has and this debate will become invalid.
"Akhil"
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