People should not be left persistent in pain. They should not have to suffer when death is unavoidable. People do have the right to commit suicide, although it is a tragic and individual act. However euthanasia is not suicide. It is not a private act as you have the support of family and friends. I think that Euthanasia is about letting a person support another death to save them from long painful deaths.
Many people argue, however, that a person who is terminally ill may make a miraculous recovery - it has happened in the past. This is however, a rare thing. Doctors are dedicated to give care to the sick, and they would nearly always now the likeliness of a recovery.
A pro-longed life is intolerable for people with a condition, which leaves the brain alert but eventually shuts down all bodily functions and skills of communicating. How can people be expected to live like this? For people like this and also people in PVS, (persistent vegetative state) I believe that their legal representatives or close family should have the choice and the trust to let them live a prolonged life or to end their life and let them die with dignity.
My opinion is, that anyone who is terminally ill should have the option to have euthanasia. However, I think that there should be very strict rules on how euthanasia should be done and whom it should be done on. I also think that all doctors should not be able to use euthanasia and that there should be special clinics.
Comment About Religious Views
Most religions disapprove of euthanasia. Some of them absolutely forbid it. The Roman Catholic Church, for example, is one of the most active religions in opposing euthanasia.
Religions are opposed to euthanasia for a number of reasons.
Roman Catholics strongly oppose euthanasia because God should decide who dies. I disagree with this view because I think that we should decide when we want to die. I think that we are the best judges of when we want to die.
The religion whose views about euthanasia I most agree with is Sikhism. Sikh’s have divided views about euthanasia. They believe that life is given by God, and therefore should not be ended. However, Sikhism also teaches that behaviour should be sensible, and euthanasia, in the right situations is sensible. I agree with Sikhism, as it doesn’t have one solid view but many different views, based on set principles.
All the religions that I have looked at basically disagree with euthanasia, as they see it as a gift from God, but I have an opposite view to the religions.
