Wednesday 16 December 2009

[Week XI] Argumentative Essay

EUTHANASIA

Euthanasia is ending one's life if one has a terminal disease is an incurable condition, and is done by a lethal injection. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide began in ancient Rome and Greece. They believed that it was okay in certain situations to allow a person to die or to help a person die. This was often the case with the elderly in these cultures. Certain religions are against euthanasia. The Christian, Jew, and Islamic religions all cling to the fact that life is sacred and should not be taken away. In some cultures, helping someone to die is the same thing as homicide, and is treated so in a court of law. When people heard about this term, they will catch it as a suicide decision. It is easy for normal people who have never got a deathly illness so that they mention euthanasia as a suicide and a stupid deed to be made by the person, on the other hand for people who got incurable illness, euthanasia is the best option to solve their inner problem by the patients or the family. There are several reasons why the patients or the families want to choose euthanasia as the key to end their life.

The first reason choosing euthanasia is because the patient could not stand anymore to his or her illness. It is a good choice for them because they have less sufferance. When the patient want to do euthanasia as their decision, it will be better for the family to appreciate about his or her option because the patient has suffer to much pain like cancer or other illnesses and cannot continue to live anymore. Choosing euthanasia for the patient by the permition from the family like that could reduce the long painful for the patient.

Another reason is euthanasia could reduce the family's sufferance. When patient choose this decision sometimes several families do not allow to do euthanasia, it is a nature reflection for them because the patient is their child so that they try to save their child's live. On the other hand this family decision could make the patient suffer more than before so that when the patient choose euthanasia the family should support him because it is better to do it rather than to see their child suffer day by day, besides that it could reduce the family's sufferance and the patient also because when seeing their children suffering, this family will feel hurt too.

Incurable illness will spend a lot of money, although the family has a lot of money to pay for the treatment and the medicines to longer the patient life but It also give the patient suffering more in the rest of his or her life. The family who has not much money to pay for the treatment, it will make them to owe a lot of money. For example a patient who suffer cancer this illness will spend a lot of money for the treatment and also the treatment could hurt the patient body. When the patient dies, the relatives have to live paying all the debts. It could sound materialistic but when the patient has decided and there is not option, euthanasia is the last chance to stop the sufferance.

There are many people who disagree with euthanasia because it is a kind of suicide or a murder done by human. Euthanasia also considered as a good choice to shorter your suffer when you realize that you do not have a long time to live anymore because of the illness like cancer and other diseases that make you very suffer in life. Euthanasia should be allowed in all countries because it will give the patient a choice to end their live because of the sufferance.

There are many good reasons to choose euthanasia as the options to end his suffer of the illness besides that it will also help to minimize the parents’ financial problem. The choice of the patient to do euthanasia should be accepted by the family and other people although some people against it. Some countries permit euthanasia to be done and I think it is ok for to allow this term "euthanasia". If I were sick like getting cancer I would consider it first to do euthanasia because it is a high risk decision.

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