Euthanasia, is it a right or a crime? Euthanasia is used when very ill people with no cure and who suffer a lot of pain decide to be killed or to have a more pleasant death. For this, certain drugs or poisons are used. This death is quick and not painful. There’s a big discussion about euthanasia being legal or illegal.
On the one hand, people have the right to decide when they want to die, if you are ill and you’re going to die anyway, perhaps it’s better to have an earlier but quicker and more pleasant death than a slower and painful one. Moreover, it’s unpleasant for the relatives to see their loved ones in pain or agony. Euthanasia gives you the chance to die with dignity, you can die wherever you want, whenever you want and with whoever you want. Besides, there’s no sense to keep people alive beyond their natural life span, if a person has no chance to survive and can’t do anything, it’s OK to let him die.
On the other hand, people might receive euthanasia against their will, in this case, it’s just like a murder. Sometimes a person might recover from an illness against all odds, perhaps the doctor got confused or was simply wrong, we’re human and we can always make mistakes. Then, some doctors are against euthanasia, their job is to try to save people’s live and make it better, everyone has his own point of view, so perhaps some doctors wouldn’t agree to kill somebody. Euthanasia is voluntary, however, some people might feel pressured to kill themselves, even though they don’t really want to die.
To sum up, as in many other dilemmas, there are many different points of view, each one with their own arguments for and against. In my opinion euthanasia should be legal, people should be free to die whenever they want. However, euthanasia should be extremely controlled, no one must die against their will or pressured by someone else.
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