Euthanasia/ argumentative/persusaion - Essay Example

There are several NGOs that have been established to help terminally ill people; Dying with dignity is one such NGO which is located in Canada. The members of the NGO have been trying hard to help terminally ill people, the NGO supports assisted suicide but at the same time they have been trying to ensure that the terminally ill patients die without any pain and they die with dignity. In some countries it is against the law to assist terminally ill patients to commit suicide. Final exit network is another NGO which helps terminally ill patients in assisted suicides.

This NGO is known for accepting patients who are suffering from fatal diseases like cancer, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease and so on. Usually it is very difficult for such patients to be adopted by an NGO but Final exit is an exception and it accepts almost everyone. The near and dear ones of the terminally ill die each day, they suffer from physical and emotional trauma isn’t assisted suicide better than dying each day? It may not be the best option but when emotional pain and suffering supersedes everything, one is left with a handful of options.

There are two ways in which euthanasia can be performed, the first one is when the doctor or the nurse gives a medicine which takes the life away of a terminally ill patient and the other is when the doctor or the nurse choose to ignore the patient and the patient dies upon not getting the proper medication. “Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of a Colorado multiple sclerosis patient whose body was discovered in a motel room.” (Doctor-Assisted Suicide) The zillion dollar question is who should decide when a terminally ill patient should be assisted with suicide or not?

This is one question which is extremely difficult to answer, most times it is the relatives of the terminally ill patient who take a call and the doctors go ahead with it in some countries where assisted suicide is allowed. “Euthanasia groups appeared for the first time in England and America in the early 20 th century. During the Second World War the Nazis in Germany had their own euthanasia program. They let people die who were not worthy and healthy enough to survive, especially children and older people.

Many groups that promote the right to die have emerged in the second part of the 20th century.” (Euthanasia) Not worthy to survive is an incomprehensible phrase, it is very debatable as to whether who is worthy of surviving and who is not? An individual who has been deemed unworthy will try and justify his worth sparking off a never ending debate, the same makes this issue all the more debatable. Euthanasia should be supported because we all have a right to decide what is good and what is bad for us, similarly it is important to assist the terminally ill when they know that their disease is incurable and they have to suffer and endure the pain, it is so much better to assist them rather than leaving them at the mercy of no one.

Even the doctors start ignoring the patients who are incurable and the pain and suffering increases by several folds when this happens. Quality of life determines whether we are happy or sad, in the case of terminally ill patients the quality of life is more often than not miserable, they experience pain beyond imagination. The emotional trauma that they go through is unimaginable; this is why it is so much bet