This post will be up to you whether you think euthanasia should be legal or not. I'm going to state the reasons for both yes, it should be legal, and no, it should not be legal. personally, i think it depends on who the person is, and their personality. Some people are tough enough to live through the pain and just stick it out till the end. But others may not be as mentally or physically tough and cant take the pain.
YES
People have the right not to be forced to suffer. And if you think ending someone's life to put them out of their misery is a crime, then letting someone suffer through pain for years is as much or more of a crime. A person has the right to say that they want to do to avoid unwanted pain. It is that person's freedom of speech and it is wrong to take that right away from them, especially if they're going to die. What if you were a person in pain for two years. Everyday, you sit in your hospital bed knowing that you will die. Your family is paying a lot of money just to keep you alive. And what if you have a poor family?What would you do then? There is also no evidence or support to show that people have complained after the euthanasia. We need the evidence that shows that horrible slope consequences are likely to occur. The mere possibility that such consequences might occur, as noted earlier, does not constitute such evidence. Many opponents of these practices point to the Hippocratic Oath and its prohibition on hastening death. But those who turn to the oath in an effort to shape or legitimize their ethical viewpoints must realize that the statement has been embraced over approximately the past 200 years far more as a symbol of professional cohesion than for its content. Its pithy sentences cannot be used as all-encompassing maxims to avoid the personal responsibility inherent in the practice of medicine. Ultimately, a physician's conduct at the bedside is a matter of individual conscience.
NO
The history of the law's treatment of assisted suicide in this country has been and continues to be one of the rejection of nearly all efforts to permit it. That being the case, our decisions lead us to conclude that the asserted 'right' to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause. Activists often claim that laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are government mandated suffering. But this claim would be similar to saying that laws against selling contaminated food are government mandated starvation. Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others. They are not, and never have been, intended to make anyone suffer. In debates with those bioethicists and physicians who believe that euthanasia is both deeply compassionate and also a logical way to cut health care costs, I am invariably scorned when I mention 'the slippery slope.' When the states legalize the deliberate ending of certain lives -- I try to tell them. It will eventually broaden the categories of those who can be put to death with impunity.
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