Mercy Killng

Euthanasia or mercy killing is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or
in an irreversible coma. Legalizing this will help terminally ill people and their loved ones lessen their grief and
suffering. From a utilitarian viewpoint, justifying euthanasia is a question of showing that allowing people to
have a good death, at a time of their own choosing, will make them happier than the pain from their illness,
the loss of dignity and the distress of anticipating a slow, painful death. Someone who wants euthanasia will
have already made this comparison for themselves. Based on Jiro Cadungons article about euthanasia In the
Philippines, euthanasia is not legal for the reason of the predominance of the religious communities which
hinders the ratification of the Euthanasia Bill. Likewise, as a religious country, Also, the majority of the Filipinos
value the Christian doctrine as the foundation of their conviction. However, some poor people do this
because they are just being practical. Here are some practicability points on why euthanasia should be
legalized.
1. THE HYPOCRATIC OATH
(AN OATH EMBODYING A CODE OF MEDICAL ETHICS USUALLY TAKEN BY Those ABOUT TO BEGIN MEDICAL
PRACTICE) According to List Verse the arguments for legalising euthanasia The famous maxim do no harm is
a summation of the Hippocratic Oathan ancient code designed to guide doctors in their actions. Many
people interpret this to mean do nothing to harm the patients chances of survival. But, taken literally, it
could just as easily mean dont artificially keep someone alive when death is preferable. When the patient
cant handle his or her situation and he wants to die, give it to him or her. It is bad that patients are still alive
by using medical tools. You are just making him feel how life is cruel. In this situation euthanasia enter which
is granting the will of the patient or the parents. Likewise, it is their request for the physician to do such thing.
The antiquated text of the Hippocratic oath should not prevent euthanasia. According to Sherwin Nuland,
M.D. Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine. "Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in
Practice," New England Journal of Medicine. February 24, 2000 - "If the prevention and relief of suffering are
the aims of medical interventions -- and not only the preservation or prolongation of life -- it seems imperative
to rethink our profession's reluctance to participate in euthanasia or even be present during an assisted
suicide without legal guarantees of protection. This implies that terminally ill persons life should be end to
lessen the pain they suffer rather than giving him medicines which actually cant help him in the misery he is
anguish for.
2. Can quickly and humanely end a patients suffering,

Many times there is nothing a doctor can do to prevent a patient from dying if the patient has a terminal
disease; all he/she can do is wait for death to arrive. This waiting time can be very painful for both the patients
and the people who surround them. If a terminal patient faces a long, slow, painful death, surely it is much
kinder to spare them this kind of suffering and allow them to end their life comfortably. Pain medications used
to alleviate symptoms often have unpleasant side effects or may leave the patient in a state of sedation. It is
not as if they are really living during this time; they are merely waiting to die. They should have the right to
avoid this kind of torturous existence and be allowed to die in a humane way.
3. IT MAKES ECONOMIC SENSE

End-of-life care is often heartless, bad, painful, and very expensive, putting patients through long stretches of
needless suffering just to give them an extra month or two. And when the terminally ill patient undergoing
these bad, expensive treatments has repeatedly insisted that theyd rather be dead, you have to start
wondering who all this expenses is really benefiting. Keeping people alive costs a lot of money, which could be
used to save other people's lives Many times we do not have enough money to pay for the needed medical
care not knowing if the patient is going to get any better. In a way, we are just wasting time and money on a
situation that wont get better. If the patient wants euthanasia, why not do it if we cannot end the huge
amount of money wasted on a treatment that wont help. how can the family afford keeping the patient on
life support, knowing that the patient will be in vegetative state, no matter how he was kept alive? it is then
illogical to hope for the patient with no enough money for medication to recover from severe diseases; this
then results to euthanasia. As what Leonard M. Fleck, Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at Michigan
State University's Medical School. Quoted in an April 7, 1996 New York Times article, "The Right to Suicide,
Some Worry, Could Evolve Into a Duty to Die" - "The need for health care rationing is inescapable because the
parameters for adding care expand each day... The moral challenge is to come up with approaches that are
open, rational and democratic, but that limit marginally beneficial and non-costworthy care. In my opinion,
there are no good options given the current situation, but assisted suicide is the least option."
In addition, I do believe that individual should have the right to choose to end their lives if they are living in an
intolerable pain and excruciating quality of life.
Some Christians would support euthanasia. They might argue:
God is love. Christianity is love and compassion. Keeping someone in pain and suffering is not loving, it
is evil. Euthanasia can be the most loving action, and the best way of putting agape love into practice.
Humans were given dominion over all living things by God (Genesis 1:28), i.e. we can choose for
ourselves.
Jesus came so that people could have life in all its fullness John 10:10: this means quality of life. If
someone has no quality of life, then euthanasia could be good.
God gave humans free will. We should be allowed to use free will to decide when our lives end.
Do to others as you would have them do to you. How would you want to be treated?
There are examples of euthanasia in the Bible - in 2 Samuel 1:9-10 Then he begged me, Come over
here and put me out of my misery, for I am in terrible pain and want to die. So I killed him.
Thomas More, a Roman Catholic saint, wrote a book about a perfect society ('Utopia'), which included
euthanasia - people "choose to die since they cannot live but in great misery."
He said to me, 'Who are you?' And I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'9"Then he said to me, 'Please
stand beside me and kill me, for agony has seized me because my life still lingers in me.' 10"So I stood
beside him and killed him, because I knew that he could not live after he had fallen.

Mercy Killng

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Mercy Killng

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Mercy Killng

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Euthanasia or mercy killing is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or

2. Can quickly and humanely end a patients suffering,

3. IT MAKES ECONOMIC SENSE

Some Christians would support euthanasia. They might argue:

You might also like