Pros and con of euthanasia?!
Question: Pros and con of euthanasia.?
i am doing a project in health science and i need pros and cons of euthanasia for humans.....please help!!!!Health Question & Answer
Answers:
Pros: 1) Fewer humans on earth. 2) No use in prolonging the inevitable. No more long, drawn out deaths filled w/ agony and pain. 3) Gives complete control of comings and goings to the being to whom which they should belong --oneself. 4) Can be the kindest, most needed, most efficient solution, especially in cases of terminal cancer. (and if you'd ever held or taken care of dying cancer patient, you'd know exactly what I'm talking about here. 5) Can cut way down on end of life care costs, which can bankrupt an elderly surviving spouse or a family. 6) Can also cut way down on useless, needless surgeries. There are many doctors, especially surgeons, who just do not know when enough is enough and cannot seem to stop cutting. Sometimes, there just is nothing that can be done, and most doctors SUCK at doing nothing, and saying, "I can't."
Cons: 1) There is much danger of abuse and overuse with euthanasia. If you don't think so, ask an elderly family member who has given over their right to make medical decisions to a family member or "professional" who just can't wait to inherit their estate. Using this choice does not allow for 11th hour miracles, which can and do occur. The choice is permanent and irrevocable, with no possibility left for anything beneficial to occur.. 2) There can be a karmic aspect to long, drawn out painful deaths. Suffering is also an incredibly deep teacher. Early death can equal no payment of karma due, and therefore necessitate another lifetime. Dying people also tend to act as extremely deep teachers for other people. Offing them sooner does not allow for these teachings and healings to take place. 3) There are people whose religious belief it is that God, and God only has the right to send us to Earth or to call us home to heaven, and that to attempt to take this right out of God's hands is the ultimate form of human arrogance, which has dire consequences. 4) In the case of euthanasia for severe chronic depression, which is the leading cause of suicide in the US, and perhaps the rest of the world as well, euthanasia does in no way allow for an advance in the treatment of depression or for "a cure" to be found. What is also true for emotional illnesses and some mental illnesses is that they can spontaneously lift and shift. Personally, if ever I were to see laws allowing for euthanasia to exist in the US, I would want and need to see an exclusion for mental/emotional illnesses as just too much can change, and in short order, too. Terminal physical illnesses are, imho, a completely different issue. I'm not saying people do not have the right to take their own lives. The word euthanasia implies someone else is either doing it to you at your request, or assisting you. In cases of BPD, schizophrenia or depression for example, I am not in favour of this being allowed to occur. 5) Can't think of anything else right now, but if I've missed something, I'm sure someone else will see it.Health Question & Answer
Cons: 1) There is much danger of abuse and overuse with euthanasia. If you don't think so, ask an elderly family member who has given over their right to make medical decisions to a family member or "professional" who just can't wait to inherit their estate. Using this choice does not allow for 11th hour miracles, which can and do occur. The choice is permanent and irrevocable, with no possibility left for anything beneficial to occur.. 2) There can be a karmic aspect to long, drawn out painful deaths. Suffering is also an incredibly deep teacher. Early death can equal no payment of karma due, and therefore necessitate another lifetime. Dying people also tend to act as extremely deep teachers for other people. Offing them sooner does not allow for these teachings and healings to take place. 3) There are people whose religious belief it is that God, and God only has the right to send us to Earth or to call us home to heaven, and that to attempt to take this right out of God's hands is the ultimate form of human arrogance, which has dire consequences. 4) In the case of euthanasia for severe chronic depression, which is the leading cause of suicide in the US, and perhaps the rest of the world as well, euthanasia does in no way allow for an advance in the treatment of depression or for "a cure" to be found. What is also true for emotional illnesses and some mental illnesses is that they can spontaneously lift and shift. Personally, if ever I were to see laws allowing for euthanasia to exist in the US, I would want and need to see an exclusion for mental/emotional illnesses as just too much can change, and in short order, too. Terminal physical illnesses are, imho, a completely different issue. I'm not saying people do not have the right to take their own lives. The word euthanasia implies someone else is either doing it to you at your request, or assisting you. In cases of BPD, schizophrenia or depression for example, I am not in favour of this being allowed to occur. 5) Can't think of anything else right now, but if I've missed something, I'm sure someone else will see it.Health Question & Answer
Look into what the philosophers say on ethics: Kant, Mill, etc.
Read recent/big court cases.
Research medical ethics, both in the US and in France.
For online searches, look up Kevorkian (obviously) Oregon, physician assisted suicide, etc.
Good luck on the project, I hope that helps start your research!Health Question & Answer
Read recent/big court cases.
Research medical ethics, both in the US and in France.
For online searches, look up Kevorkian (obviously) Oregon, physician assisted suicide, etc.
Good luck on the project, I hope that helps start your research!Health Question & Answer
It should be each persons right to determine their own destiny.Health Question & Answer