Euthanasia

Euthanasia Throughout the twentieth century, major scientific and medical advances have greatly enhanced the life expectancy of the average person. However, there are many instances where doctors can preserve life artificially. In these cases where the patient suffers from a terminal disease or remains in a "persistent vegetative state” or PVS from which they cannot voice there wishes for continuation or termination of life, the question becomes whether or not the patient has the freedom to choose whether or not to prolong their life even though it may consist of pain and suffering. In answer to this question, proponents of physician-assisted suicide, most notably, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, are of the opinion that not only should patients be able to abstain from treatment, but if they have a terminal and/or extremely painful condition, they should be able to seek out the assistance of a doctor in order to expedite their death with as little pain as possible. People should be given the right to choose euthanasia as a way to end there lives rather than suffering through the endless pain of a terminal illness. Anti-active euthanasia proponents feel that it is the duty of physicians to help and heal euthanasia, life, suicide, should, one, death, patients, patient, choice, suffering, states, state, pain, individual, feel, doctors, active, terminal, right, people, legalization, ethical, end, being, wish, very, value, two, society, seems, question, physician-assisted, made, illness, exit