Right To Die Controversy
The Right to Die Controversy
Who are we to say when we should die? Are we trying to play God, or do we just want the right to end the inevitable a little sooner than God’s plan for us? This paper will discuss pros and cons of euthanasia with stories and research. Such as the case of a ninety five year old comma patient, whose family receives the news that she could live for months, years even in a vegetative state on life support; leaving the family questioning whether or not to pull the plug and put an end to what otherwise would be like the “death of a hundred deaths.” Another example of this would be the case of thirteen year old Hannah Jones, whose leukemia therapy has left her with a hole in her heart, leaving her needing a life-saving …show more content…
Is this possibly their way of giving patients the choice of living or dying without a breach of their civic duty to maintain life? Catholic health care facilities feel that it is wrong to deny a terminally ill patient of food and water. If the patient and the family decide against the measures it takes to maintain the patient’s life, the facilities explain their point of view on the issue, then ask the patient to go to another health care facility.
Physicians take a hypocritical oath that says “Do no harm”, but are they really harming a patient that is already near death by letting them make the choice not to sustain what little life they may have left. After living on life support for fifteen years, Terry Schiavo’s husband was granted the right to take her off after a long legal battle. Upon her death an autopsy was performed and they found her brain to be a half of its normal …show more content…
This maybe that they no longer have to fight, feel pain, or be what they feel as a financial burden to their families from the medical methods used to sustain their lives. The terminally ill also may feel some sense of dignity by being able to decide how and where they’re going to die. Families of children who are so grossly disfigured and unable to move and have a chance of a normal life may feel like they have given that child a way out of their later struggles. The families of brain dead patients may feel that their loved one in some sense was already dead by the lack of normal brain function, making it pointless to keep them alive by artificial
Who are we to say when we should die? Are we trying to play God, or do we just want the right to end the inevitable a little sooner than God’s plan for us? This paper will discuss pros and cons of euthanasia with stories and research. Such as the case of a ninety five year old comma patient, whose family receives the news that she could live for months, years even in a vegetative state on life support; leaving the family questioning whether or not to pull the plug and put an end to what otherwise would be like the “death of a hundred deaths.” Another example of this would be the case of thirteen year old Hannah Jones, whose leukemia therapy has left her with a hole in her heart, leaving her needing a life-saving …show more content…
Is this possibly their way of giving patients the choice of living or dying without a breach of their civic duty to maintain life? Catholic health care facilities feel that it is wrong to deny a terminally ill patient of food and water. If the patient and the family decide against the measures it takes to maintain the patient’s life, the facilities explain their point of view on the issue, then ask the patient to go to another health care facility.
Physicians take a hypocritical oath that says “Do no harm”, but are they really harming a patient that is already near death by letting them make the choice not to sustain what little life they may have left. After living on life support for fifteen years, Terry Schiavo’s husband was granted the right to take her off after a long legal battle. Upon her death an autopsy was performed and they found her brain to be a half of its normal …show more content…
This maybe that they no longer have to fight, feel pain, or be what they feel as a financial burden to their families from the medical methods used to sustain their lives. The terminally ill also may feel some sense of dignity by being able to decide how and where they’re going to die. Families of children who are so grossly disfigured and unable to move and have a chance of a normal life may feel like they have given that child a way out of their later struggles. The families of brain dead patients may feel that their loved one in some sense was already dead by the lack of normal brain function, making it pointless to keep them alive by artificial