Should Euthanasia Be Legalized

張貼日期：Jun 25, 2010 1:15:35 PM

Janice Chen

Euthanasia is a way that patients end their lives by injecting lethal medicine or stop unnecessary medical treatment. Whether the patient who has serious disease can resort to euthanasia to end their life is a controversial issue. Some people are against euthanasia because it is not moral, but some people agree and support it. As to me, I strongly oppose euthanasia.

Some people think that it is reasonable to practice euthanasia, because it can relieve the patients’ unbearable pain. The progress of medical treatment allows the patients live continuously, but they still can’t bear the pain. Why not just end their lives so they can stop suffering from the diseases? However, I think we have to respect life. We can’t deprive humans’ right to live. We can’t give up our rights, whether we can defeat the diseases or not.

Some patients ask doctors to let them die because they don’t want to let their families waste too much money or time taking care of them. They want to reduce the enormous economic burdens and the spiritual torture. But, most people won’t give up curing their families if the patients still have chances to recover. People do not want to lose their beloved family.

Some countries have approved euthanasia. Holland is the first country that makes euthanasia legal. Doctors can mercifully kill people according to the patients’ volitions and won’t be accused. They practice euthanasia under the following conditions: one is when there are no methods to cure the patients. Another is that the patients choose euthanasia rather than live with the incurable disease. But I think doctors have the responsibility to help patients defeat the diseases. They must respect lives and try their best to maintain the patients’ life. Doctors should not be the killers.

To sum up, euthanasia should not be legalized. People have the rights to maintain their own lives. We should cherish and respect lives. Although patients have to experience the aches from diseases that other people can’t realize, I think never giving up remedy can help them release from pain and live a dignified life.