euthanasia

The Right to Die

A difficult problem that is facing society is euthanasia, another word for mercy killing. Thousands of young people are mortally ill because of incurable disease. They are all kept alive in artificial ways. They have no chance to recover completely, but most of the legal systems do not allow doctors to end their lives. However, fatally ill patients should be allowed to die for several reasons.

The first reason is that medical costs are very high. The cost of a hospital room can be as much as a hundred dollars per day and even more. The costs of medicines and medical tests are also high. The family of the patient is responsible for these expenses. Consequently, they would be a terrible financial burden for them for a long time.

The second reason is that the family suffers. The nurses can only give the terminally ill patient minimum care. The family must spend time to care for the special needs of their loved one. They should talk, touch, and hold the patient even though he or she may be in a coma. For example, Karen Quinlan’s parents visited her every day even though she was unable to speak or to see. Also, it is very difficult to watch a loved one in a coma because his or her condition does not improve.

The third and most important reason is that the patients have no chance of recovery. They can never lead normal lives and must be kept alive by life – support machines. They may need a machine to breathe and a feeding tube to take in food. They are more dead than alive and will never get better. For example, in 1975, Karen Quinlan became unconscious after the she swallowed some drugs and drank alcohol. She was kept alive by machines. Her parents knew that her body and brain would never be normal. Therefore, they asked the court to allow their daughter to die. The judge agreed, and Karen’s breathing machine was turned off. She was able to breathe on her own, but she died nine years later in June of 1985.

In conclusion, because terminally ill patients have no chance to live normal lives, they should be allowed to die with dignity. Therefore, the family should have the right to ask to turn off the life-support machines or to stop further medical treatment.

MY PARAGRAPH

A person's life is very important even if he or she is too ill.There are mainly there pretext to decide euthanasia.Firstly, people complain about the high price of hospitals concern about fatal illnesses.But, if some charities found this can be solved.Also a hospital can be found, its personnal consist of voluntary people.The second complaint is that the family spend much of their time with their patient.But families should be self-sacrificing in these situations.Because whatever the illness is the patient is a human.It is possible that they could be the patient one.Finally, patients don't have much time for living is cause family's deciding euthanasia.But there is always a hope.Because like other people and sciences, medicine and doctors can make errors, too.So it is unnecessary to decide one's dead in every occasion.To sum up, to me euthanasia isn't the correct move to do.Because before everything it is a life.