Issue: Should Euthanasia Be Legalized in Australia?
Issue: Should euthanasia be legalized in Australia?
Pallid skin, cool to the touch. Invisible, bony fingers drag the sides of your lips down into a grimace. That lifeless, although still holding onto life, loved one is your family, your friend, and a person you hold dear to your heart. People feel this desperation everyday. Hopefully, you have not experienced it yet.
Good morning the members of Australian Medical Association. My name is Isabella Lucas and I am the director of pro-euthanasia group in Australia. I have been asked along here today by Dr Steve Hamilton, the president of the Medical Association to look at the issue of “Should euthanasia be legalized in Australia?” In my case I think euthanasia should be legalized, because individuals have the number one priority in a decision dealing with their own personal health and care. Secondly, what’s the point of being alive if a person is in a vegetative state? Finally, it stops the person from having bad quality of life.
Deciding if you want to be alive or not is a personal decision. Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide if you should live or not. For instance, there is so much diversity and so many options in the here and now, why shouldn't ending your life be that way, also? You can design your casket, your gravestone, why not how to end your life? Nowadays we have the freedom to decide our job, our family, our religion, and even our sex preferences. Why don’t we have the right to decide if we want to live or not? It is not logical that we can choose in all those other directions if we cannot to live or die. Therefore, if the individual is consent to euthanasia, then it should rightfully be granted to them.
Being in a vegetative state is no way to live your life. Having to breathe and eat off a tube is hopeless. Think about you in this situation? What would you do? Would you wait for the worst day ahead of you or would you like to die? Keeping somebody alive when
Pallid skin, cool to the touch. Invisible, bony fingers drag the sides of your lips down into a grimace. That lifeless, although still holding onto life, loved one is your family, your friend, and a person you hold dear to your heart. People feel this desperation everyday. Hopefully, you have not experienced it yet.
Good morning the members of Australian Medical Association. My name is Isabella Lucas and I am the director of pro-euthanasia group in Australia. I have been asked along here today by Dr Steve Hamilton, the president of the Medical Association to look at the issue of “Should euthanasia be legalized in Australia?” In my case I think euthanasia should be legalized, because individuals have the number one priority in a decision dealing with their own personal health and care. Secondly, what’s the point of being alive if a person is in a vegetative state? Finally, it stops the person from having bad quality of life.
Deciding if you want to be alive or not is a personal decision. Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide if you should live or not. For instance, there is so much diversity and so many options in the here and now, why shouldn't ending your life be that way, also? You can design your casket, your gravestone, why not how to end your life? Nowadays we have the freedom to decide our job, our family, our religion, and even our sex preferences. Why don’t we have the right to decide if we want to live or not? It is not logical that we can choose in all those other directions if we cannot to live or die. Therefore, if the individual is consent to euthanasia, then it should rightfully be granted to them.
Being in a vegetative state is no way to live your life. Having to breathe and eat off a tube is hopeless. Think about you in this situation? What would you do? Would you wait for the worst day ahead of you or would you like to die? Keeping somebody alive when