Euthanasia

Euthanasia United States Supreme Courts are debating on a moral issue known as euthanasia. Euthanasia is most commonly known as assisted suicide. In Greek the word euthanasia means “a good, pleasant death.” Euthanasia should become legal in this country. The main reason for euthanasia is to reduce the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients. At the time a patient is diagnosed with a disease they are able to refuse treatment. The patient then receives medicine to reduce the pain and suffering. Anti-euthanasiasts lobby that euthanasia is murder and that physician assisting with the suicide should be punished, however; pro-euthanasiasts want to give terminally ill patients the right to chose and not punish the physician that assisted in the suicide (“Euthanasia… 2) The patients' right is another reason for legalizing euthanasia. Once a patient is informed that they have stopped responding to treatment, they should be allowed to cancel and refuse them. “People should be empowered to have control over their own bodies.” If a person does not live in Columbia, Netherlands, Japan, or in the state of Oregon, the only option that is legal is to remain alive (“Euthanasia…, 2). The choice to remain alive should not be made by religious groups, euthanasia, should, pain, suicide, patients, terminally, patient, legal, illness, ill, treatment, terminal, right, person, live, life, groups, assisted, very, suffering, remain, refuse, reduce, reason, quality, poor, pleasant, physician, people, patients’, members, medicine, make, known, intractable, good