Euthanasia Essay: Physician Assisted Suicide

Life is meant to be a beautiful experience that entails quality of life. When this quality of life ceases to exist, what is the point of living? Usually when it comes down to this question, it’s because of a severe, incurable mental illness or terminal illness such as certain cancers or schizophrenia. These diseases and illnesses can be horribly painful and unbearable and sometimes people are left with only one option —death. No one should be subjected to the horrendous ways of suicide. That’s where another option comes into play, euthanasia. Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing or physician assisted suicide, is an extremely helpful, dignified, practice that can help end the pain and suffering of so many.
Euthanasia is the intentional death …show more content…
The main purpose of the oath is that the physician is in charge of making sure the patient is well and comfortable, which is important. One of the main arguments is that there is more harm in the physician not allowing the patient to die when it comes to choosing between extremely intense suffering or death. In the Hippocratic Oath, Hippocrates proves this is true when he says “I will keep them from harm and injustice” (Tyson). The pain the patients going through can be more harmful to them emotionally and physically than anything else and their death would be a huge …show more content…
The alternatives to euthanasia that people end up using/doing are horrifying. By refusing people the right to end their own lives, we’re increasing that pain and indignity to a such a horrifying extent. There are multiple cases of human beings that have tried taking their lives in other ways, such as starvation, because they were denied this painless death. If humans really want to end their lives, they will and sometimes in the most horrific, most painful ways, so they might as well have a painless option. They deserve to die painlessly with their dignity and self-respect still in