Should euthanasia be legal?
Euthanasia also called mercy killing is the intentional practice of ending life so as to relieve
pain and suffering of a person. According to the dictionary, means the killing of a person
who is suffering from an incurable disease. Lately, it had been a huge debate over whether
euthanasia should be legalized or not. Personally, I believe that euthanasia should be
legalized if it is voluntary. I have the following reasons for my argument.
First of all, euthanasia saves money and resources. I think it is a huge waste if we use
those money and resources to increase the lives of those who are suffering from an
incurable disease and want to die themselves rather than saving lives of those with a
curable ailment. When we put those patients, who ask for euthanasia, to death, then
the waiting list of hospitals will shorten.
Secondly, to many people, quality of life is more important than the length of the
life. The patients who ask for euthanasia are going through unbearable pain that
others won’t understand. The bystanders think it is better to live, but the patients
themselves see death as a way to end their unbearable pain and to give them peace.
It is pointless to force those patients to live longer.
Lastly, it should be the patients who decide what is to be done to their bodies. Even
though the doctor is the one who put the patient to death in the process of
euthanasia, the patient is the one who makes the decision to be “killed”. Thus,
voluntary euthanasia should be legalized.
Euthanasia also called mercy killing is the intentional practice of ending life so as to relieve
pain and suffering of a person. According to the dictionary, means the killing of a person
who is suffering from an incurable disease. Lately, it had been a huge debate over whether
euthanasia should be legalized or not. Personally, I believe that euthanasia should be
legalized if it is voluntary. I have the following reasons for my argument.
First of all, euthanasia saves money and resources. I think it is a huge waste if we use
those money and resources to increase the lives of those who are suffering from an
incurable disease and want to die themselves rather than saving lives of those with a
curable ailment. When we put those patients, who ask for euthanasia, to death, then
the waiting list of hospitals will shorten.
Secondly, to many people, quality of life is more important than the length of the
life. The patients who ask for euthanasia are going through unbearable pain that
others won’t understand. The bystanders think it is better to live, but the patients
themselves see death as a way to end their unbearable pain and to give them peace.
It is pointless to force those patients to live longer.
Lastly, it should be the patients who decide what is to be done to their bodies. Even
though the doctor is the one who put the patient to death in the process of
euthanasia, the patient is the one who makes the decision to be “killed”. Thus,
voluntary euthanasia should be legalized.
