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Euthanasia is morally wrong

The life of every human being on the phase of the earth is precious. Irrespective of the

age or the gender and the race of any individual their lives are bound to be preserved and not

taken away from them especially if they are not willing. It is the duty of every individual to

maintain their personal warfare, but in the long run, it should be our responsibility to look out

for the lives of our friends. It is therefore morally correct for the individuals to safeguard

the lives of their fellow individuals and ensure that they do not inflict pain on them even

if they don’t have a personal relationship or the person is a total stranger. The morality

of Euthanasia has been argued out by a number of people to try and prove whether it is right

for one to take away the life of an individual without their consent.

In the medical field, the doctors are expected to take care of the patients and provide

them with high-quality care so that the patients might be able to recover quickly. The family

and the relatives of the patients, on the other hand, are also expected to ensure that their loved

one is provided with the utmost care that they deserve. The family members and the relatives

also need to ensure that their loved ones we gave proper medication that he or she requires.

The one fact that we can’t fail to deny is that the prime purpose of us taking our loved ones

and our friends to the hospital is that they will receive treatment and get back to their normal

lives (Amarasekara & Bagaric, 2002).

In the extreme cases where life and death are involved, it would be the impulse of any

individual will be to keep their loved one alive and the impulse will tend to be stronger than

ever. There are cases where you find patients suffering from terminal diseases and these

patients require medical attention to remove the risk that might lead to their demise. These

patients, in fact, should be handled with utmost care to ensure their recovery. These patients

are human beings just like us the only distinguishing factor is that they are suffering from a

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tormenting disease. They are prone to pain and stress as well and thus they ought to receive

the utmost care in the hospital so as to ensure that they fully recover.

Euthanasia has been described in several ways, and different terms have been used to

refer to the act of taking away the life of an individual. Some have referred to it as the mercy

killing, but the fact remains that euthanasia involves the taking away of life from an

individual. Euthanasia comes in different ways which are the active euthanasia and the

passive euthanasia. For the passive euthanasia, the patients withdraw from taking medication

while the active euthanasia involves another individual is involved in the taking away of the

life of an individual. This is usually done by the individual injecting the other with a sedative

that leads to the demise of the other individual. Inducing euthanasia to a patient is meant to

kill them no matter the means that is used to induce the euthanasia.

The core reason why many people would advise their loved ones to go for euthanasia

is that they want to save them from the pain they are feeling. This is the case for most patients

who are suffering from terminal diseases such as cancer, and thus the doctor and the closest

individuals will opt to end the life of the individual to save the person from suffering and

enduring pain (Biggar, 2004). It is factual that dead people are not able to feel pain, but this

should not be the reason why the loved ones and the doctors opt to use this means as a

solution to the pain that the patient is undergoing. Euthanasia should not at all cost be used as

a solution to ending the pain of an individual because you never know the fate of that person.

Probably if the doctor or the family had not opted for euthanasia, then the patient would have

recovered. this is arguable and needs to be further explained

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Our prime purpose should be to preserve the lives of those individuals who are close

to us and those who are far as well. If you think about it if our core intention was to preserve

the life of our loved ones and those close to us then we would want to extend the life of that

individual no matter how short lived that extension will be. Euthanasia is not justifiable, and

in most countries, it has been prohibited. Most people tend to justify this means of taking

away the life of an individual by claiming that by doing this they are helping the individual

not face pain or by doing this then they are avoiding the medical bills from pilling up. These

reasons should by no means be used to justify the fact that euthanasia is helping the

individual.

No individual on earth has the right to take away the life of an individual. Euthanasia

is wholly evil and putting oneself in the shoes of the patient who is suffering from the

terminal illness one should do that which he or she should have wanted to be done unto them.

Most people sought for euthanasia out of selfish reasons as they don't want to spend their

time and resources looking for the suffering individual. It is only God who has the right and

authority to take life and thus the members of the suffering individual should think of letting

the individual face the illness and let Gods will be done (Vaughn, 2015). The patient should

be the one to decide whether he wants his life to be taken away else he wants to continue

living until God decides otherwise.

It is for these reasons that euthanasia is considered to be morally wrong. The involved

parties should, therefore, see to it that at no one point do they opt for euthanasia to be

employed in their suffering relatives, loved ones or allies. They should let God be the one to

decide the fate of an individual and they should not take the opportunity to decide the fate of

an individual just because they want to save themselves from piling up medical bills.

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References

Amarasekara, K., & Bagaric, M. (2002). Euthanasia, morality and the law. P. Lang.

Biggar, N. (2004). Aiming to Kill: The ethics of suicide and euthanasia.

Vaughn, L. (2015). Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues. WW Norton

& Company.