Euthanasia
...se of abortion can not force his ex-wife to have the baby, and this is an example of a person’s rights being respected in a situation of life and death. If the Canadian Courts are willing to uphold this, why not Euthanasia? Therefore why should other people have the right to decide the well being of someone sick and suffering, when abortion is the same thing; ‘murder’ . “A Canadian study claims 73 per cent of terminal cancer patients believe that euthanasia or doctor-assisted suicide should be legalized.” Slowly societies are beginning to learn it is practical and humane to help someone’s journey into death and make it as comfortable as possible, and that it is the adult’s decision who is suffering. Many experts have shared their opinion on euthanasia. In 1920 the book "Permitting the Destruction of Life not Worthy of Life" was published. In this book, author Alfred Hoche, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Freiburg, and Karl Binding, a professor of law from the University of Leipzig, argued that patients who ask for "death assistance" should, under very carefully controlled conditions, be able to obtain it from a physician.” In conclusion physician-assisted suicide should definitely be legal in Canada due to solid support for it in previous years, along with medical backing from respected professors. Therefore the main issue is what euthanasia has to offer to Canada and why would it benefit from it being legal in the years to come. As the baby boomers in Canada reach the ages of sixty through eighty, the number of retired and the number of employed will be greatly unbalanced, and there won’t be enough employed (18-59) to support seniors. This will mean increased pension tax, and more importantly it will mean the hospitals will be even more busy then they are this year. The problem is so serious in some hospitals one in five people with serious wounds would be sent back home in less than a week. Euthanasia may be a partial solution to the problems youth may face in the next fifteen years because vacating room for people that can really use medical attention and do have a chance to live is more practical. People who are terminally ill and suffering from diseases such as cancer or people that are in a “vegetative state” where they are paralyzed should have the right to choose whether they want to continue in agony or die peacefully. If physician-assisted euthanasia was legalized it would save the lives of younger people and help those who have worked hard all their life (seniors) to enter death peacefully and gracefully without anguish. Many people may remember the famous case from 1993, concerning the situation of Sue Rodriguez, who had been diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). “She needed the assistance of a doctor. Yet any physician who assisted risked losing his or her medical license and would face a maximum 14-year jail term.” Sue Rodriguez was affected by ALS severely as it destroyed her motor skills, yet left her mind intact to watch herself deteriorate. This surely is a reasonable case where physician-assisted suicide would relieve Sue Rodriguez’ undeniable agony and saver her some dignity in death. Author Frances Perkins Gilman wrote, “The record of a previously noble life is precisely what makes it sheer insult to allow death in pitiful degradation. We may not wish to 'die with our boots on,' but we may well prefer to die with our brains on…. I have preferred chloroform to cancer.” Most people would rather prefer their loved ones to pass away calmly and with dignity rather than have them suffer through treatments that don’t work and have to survive the pain till death knocked on their door. According to John Horgan, most people in North America die what may be called a bad death. One study found that "More often than not, patients died in pain, their desires concerning treatment neglected, after spending 10 days or more in an intensive care unit." Therefore if there is a solution to ending suffering peacefully, while at the same time freeing hospital beds for the temporarily sick and injured then Canada as a country can avoid a very big problem nearing in the horizon. There are three other countries and states that have already legalized Euthanasia. “Starting on Monday, Belgian law allows doctors to help kill patients who, during a terminal illness, express a wish to hasten their own death. Having passed the law in May, Belgium is now the third jurisdiction after the Netherlands (April 1, 2002) and the state of Oregon (1997) to legalize euthanasia.” States where there are no laws prohibiting physician-assisted suicide have abolished common law criminal language in North Carolina, Utah and Wyoming. Euthanasia is not unethical, if the charter gives us the right to live then we should be given the choice whether we want that right or not. Euthanasia is not murder it is like abortion, to end something before the problem becomes much worse and because of your problem, more people suffer and it creates an echo effect. An author , “Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592 CE) was the first major dissenter among European writers. He wrote a series of five essays which touched on the subject of ...