Further it is also known that medicine has the ability to control pain therefore the doctors should assist the patient not to be put to death but to alleviate and eradicate the pain that he might be suffering. According to them, that is the right approach to this problem.
People advocating for euthanasia say that for patients with terminal illness, this option should be legalized and present. Such patients do not have any cure and should be relieved from the agony and put to a peaceful death. Letting a patient suffer the agony and pain means that the society is brutal and is letting a person suffer when there is an easy way out. Why should man let another man suffer for no reason? When the person will die lets say a week from now so why not put him to sleep peacefully now rather than to let him suffer? These questions are asked by the proponents of euthanasia which aim to make people feel that letting a person suffer for no reason is barbaric and should be avoided. They say that man should help man to make things easier for them. The general public opposing euthanasia however disagrees to this and speaks something similar to what Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist, said about her dying patients: "Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. [But assisting a suicide is] cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business" (Burke J. Balch et al.). They feel that suicide or euthanasia as one may call it is wrong for the terminally ill and that they should be given support, helped with solving disputes and restoring relationships. Instead of helping them in the positive way if one just puts them to sleep then that is immoral and unethical. For the terminally ill they say, that if a doctor practices passive euthanasia, then that would be just as painful or maybe even more as compared to the pain he will suffer while on support till death takes him away.
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