Euthanasia is the practice of ending a life to release an individual from suffering an incurable disease or intolerable pain. Having to lay in bed twenty-four hours a day is no way to live a life. People that suffer from a serious disease should have the right to die by euthanasia. In 1991, a national telephone survey was conducted which posed the question, "if you were terminally ill, what would you want for yourself". Fifty-two percent of one thousand people in the US said that they'd consider assisted suicide or euthanasia. Among the reasons cited were that the people wouldn't want to burden others, live in pain, or be dependent on others or machines. Ones that depend on other people to care for them only feel like a burden. Being a burden to a loved one makes the sick feel even worse then they do already because of their illness. People that are alive only because of machines r
People also argue that it is against religion. People believe, only God can give life and only God should take it away. But I ask, why would God prolong such pain and suffering?" Jesus Christ suffered and died on a cross. Would he want to see his people go through suffering like he had to? So should one have the right to die? I feel a person is entitled to that choice. The word 'euthanasia' comes from the Greek-eu, meaning good, and thanatos, meaning death. So the word euthanasia means "good death" by its origins. Euthanasia is a way of putting an end to a person's life in which they are suffering or totally dependent on others or machines. Having the right to die should become legal so, many suffering people can end their pain legally.
No one is suggesting the value of life be taken lightly. However, the only case worse than a terminally ill patient requesting euthanasia, is the doctor refusing i
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