Dying by my Own Wishes
Expressing arguments for families and patients in making the critical decision of their terminally ill love ones to terminate life support.
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No one has the right to take someone’s life, but people have the right to choose to prolong their lives or to end their sufferings. There are many people with terminal diseases that have to decide whether or not to end their lives or prolong treatments by using life support systems. Doctors should allow their patients to make this decision and if they choose to end their lives, at their own wish, and how and when should occur. I strongly agree with this statement because I would not like my family members to experience the physical suffering, and financial devastation this can cause.
The United States Supreme Court is opening doors to many such laws across the nation for ending lives of the terminally ill through lethal injection. This practice is illegal in every state, except, Oregon. Oregon has only law in the United States that allows a physician to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminal ill patients who wish to end their lives. Other states including Hawaii and California have made movements toward similar legislations. According to a March report from Oregon’s Department of Health and Human Services, seventy-nine percent of patients who chose physician assisted suicide suffered from cancer. Meanwhile, my life, and my death is my decision. (Fox News.com)
The proponents take the views of the terminally ill patients because that people can not be force to stay alive in vegetative state. United States House of Representatives Pain Relief Promotion Bill, which made it an offense for doctors to prescribe barbiturates, is the principal supporting of this practice. For instance, proponents believe euthanasia respect a terminally ill patient’s dignity and meets ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence. While the opponents do not support people who are suffering terminal disease and they do not want those people to end their lives. Some organizations such as CURE (organization for rights of patients) and other religions are against unplugging the machines of patients with terminally illness and disease. They believe that human life is sacred because it is given by God, and a removed person from feeding tubes is against to God. (Euthanasia.com)
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