Personal Look at Euthanasia
Personal Look at EuthanasiaRecent debates over active euthanasia, "killing" a terminally
ill patient, in Holland, has risen the question whether euthanasia is
immoral or a simple human right. Doctors seem to have no doubt. They
made an oath. The definition of Euthanasia depends on whether it is
active or passive. Active Euthanasia is only allowed in Holland, and
it means that the doctor takes direct measures to put a patient to
sleep, whereas passive Euthanasia only involves stopping pill
consumption, or stopping treatment. In England, only passive
Euthanasia is allowed.
Euthanasia touches some of the deepest feelings in human
beings. It is the power over life and death, and responsibilities no
one wishes to take, have to be taken. This, of cause, leads to the
ultimatum, that it is the patients own choice. But can we allow some
one to take their own lives? Doesn't this mean that everyone else
around the patient have failed, that more could have been done? From
the patients point of view, a lot of arguments talk in favor of
euthanasia. For one, no body wants to be a burden. If a person has had
a car accident which paralyses him from neck and down, and is doomed
to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he knows that he will
be 100% dependant on the ones that care for him, his lived ones,
forever. It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a
terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. Never being...
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