Euthanasia is a practice whereby a person can end his life in order to relieve the pain and suffer. Yes, nowadays people can commit suicide in right procedure and legally. Based on Regional Euthanasia Review Committees, there are about 2120 deaths from euthanasia in Netherlands in 2007. Do you know why there are so many people who do it? Death is not that simple, but still, is it the only way for them? It is often said that “Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life”. Some people think that it is better to die than to suffer in life. Like an example, Mrs. Boyes, 70 years old widow who was infected by rheumatoid arthritis and severe complications. She felt so much pain that she will scream every time people touch her. Desperate, she repeatedly asked the doctor to end her life quickly. The doctor who takes care of her, Dr. Cox, therefore give her an injection of potassium chloride in 1992. She had a peaceful death and Dr. Cox did the right things to help the patient. Euthanasia should be legalized as it has benefits for the patients and their family. The most significant benefits are to relieve the patients from the pain and to take the pressure away from patient’s family.
Euthanasia, which means “good death” in Greek, is a legalized way for patients to be free from suffer when he/she can’t stand the pain anymore. Based on HealthDay News, about 36.000 deaths in US are caused by pain killer overdosed. It is undeniable that many people with severe illness can not bear the pain and thus have to consume pain killer. Moreover, according to NVVE surveys, more than a half number of people who undertake euthanasia are based on their own will. For the example, Sue Rodriguez (1950-1994) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1991. She lived painfully knowing that the disease will damage her muscle one by one until all of it. However, she was still fully conscious to feel these immeasurably sufferings. She had no hope to live in such kind of misery, until one day she decided to end her life as she could not endure it anymore. Based on Daily Tribune, chronic pain can affect human’s psychological, such as desperate and unwillingness to life. It can be imagined how people feel is, when they can not do anything by themselves, even walking, also the indescribable pain from illness that disperse in their body. Consequently, euthanasia can be just the most comfortable way to relieve the sufferings.
By ending patient’s life, also can lighten their family’s pressure in term of financially and mentally. Let’s take cancer as the example. Based on Chemotherapyfacts.com, the drugs only will cost about $100-$300 for an eight week supply and $10.000 for the chemotherapy. Yes, it is not that easy to pay the cost, just to see the patient continuing to face the severe illness. The facts from medical experiment shows that chemotherapy causes many side effects such as nausea, vomiting, hair loss, fatigue, bleed easily, and decrease in immune system. The patient will be more fragile to be infected by other fatal illness. To see a family member going through these things for the rest of his life is a mental pressure. Some patients will choose to end his life thus his family can keep on going. What is the point to survive a painful life when the family can let him go peacefully? Thus, a legal euthanasia can be the solution to relieve the pressure of family as long as the patient will to do it.
As the conclusion, euthanasia should be legalized as the only way for patients to be free from their pain and to relieve the pressure of their family. In the future, there will be more and more complicated illness that can be cause by virus or even, failure in surgery. The question is, when the patient is begging to end his life because of a tremendous pain, will the family accept it? Overall, it again, comes back to one’s spirit to life and to be recovered. When it has been carefully considered to end one’s life for his/her goodness, then it should be done correctly, without any regrets.
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