Persuasive on Why Euthanasia Should Be Legal
Euthanasia should be legal. If you examine the aspects in an unbiased manner it is clear why it should be legalised. Why make death illegal? It is a key part of life and someone should be able to choose when they die. This why euthanasia should be legal essay will show some arguments for this position.
Euthanasia would be strictly observed and controlled and only applied to terminally ill patients. Lethal injection would be the method of euthanising and patients would pass away painlessly instead of prolonged pain. It also offers dignity in death and they would have a noble ending. Would you really want to deny a person the choice to pass away with dignity and respect?....
Euthanasia should be legal because it gives dying people the ability to control how and when they pass on. It also determines how they are remembered by their loved ones. Euthanasia is a safe procedure. The rate of failure is 0% this is because nothing can go wrong. If something fails they die and dying is the whole point of the procedure. In the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal and has been since 2002. They do many procedures to make sure that euthanasia is the best option. This is what we should be doing if the UK legalises euthanasia. If you were terminally ill would you want to wait and endure the suffering when you can ensure the pain never happens? When reviewing the evidence it is clear that euthanasia, being illegal, is a violation of a persons control over their life.
Advocates argue that allowing patients to end their suffering is not only morally justified but also essential to upholding the right to personal control of the body. In some cases, patients who do not get appropriate medical support may turn to suicide as a way to end their lives. This is horrendous as no one should ever have to feel like they have to take matters into their own hands and end their own life. It is more painful and extremely uncomfortable. Suicide rates among cancer patients are nearly twice as high. They don't want to succumb to the disease and they are denied euthanasia so they kill themselves. A shocking 4.3% of all suicides in Finland in 1987 were committed by cancer patients. Let that sink in…
Interestingly the arguments aiding the legalisation of euthanasia mostly come from the patients themselves or their family and friends. The patients know first hand what people go through while waiting to die and the people around them have witnessed the changes they went through or are going through at the moment. We can see this through the quote from the US national library of medicine, “Some had multiple reasons, including pain and anticipated pain, fear of dignity, loss of control and cognitive impairment”. More than 70% of terminal cancer patients experience severe pain. Euthanasia could be a chance to get away from the pain and make sure it never happened. Think of all of the pain they are suffering from. It is like a race that you know you will not win. They will catch you but not instantly you will have to keep running and running until your body fails. Then you have become yet another victim of an incurable disease. We need to legalise euthanasia but it needs to be under tight control. There would be checks and the person would have to provide a declaration when they are of sound mental state.
There are many countries where euthanasia is legal. There are tight controls over the way euthanasia is approved and acted upon. The most recognised countries to support euthanasia and assisted dying are the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. They all have tight procedures. The first thing that they do is that only terminal people can apply for euthanasia. This means that not any person with a non-serious illness can choose to be euthanised. The only country without a minimum age in this trio of countries is Belgium. The Netherlands and Luxembourg have minimum age requirements. The Netherlands’ age requirement is 12 years old. If you are under 16 you have to have your parents provide a signature. In Luxembourg, the minimum age is 18. In 2016 in the Netherlands 4% of the total deaths were from euthanasia. This means that the worries about death counts rising at an unsteady pace are invalid. We should definitely consider this and I hope that you see how much this could benefit people’s quality of life.
Euthanasia would be more cost-effective and more reliable than the palliative medicine and care required to keep terminal patients alive. It is unpredictable because you never know when it will end. The costs are unbearable for some families and it can drive them into poverty or debt. It is also because the patients will not be working anymore so the family will not have the same income. Euthanasia could solve this for some families as it would be cost-effective and you would be able to predict when the costs would end. Do you really want families to be affected for years to come when you could end that with euthanasia? One decision could change the lives of thousands and could improve the financial stability of families in these situations. Think about it, the world could be a better place. You could help change this. You could help the fight to legalise euthanasia.
When you look back at the evidence it is clear to see that euthanasia is a completely safe procedure and should be legalised. You cannot argue with this statement because we have proved all of the negatives wrong or inaccurate.it would allow patients to die in the way that they want and with dignity. It would also help the financial situations of families going through terminal illness. Very strong countries already have euthanasia legalised. We should join them and improve the lives of thousands.
