Euthansia

Euthansia EUTHANASIA, THE ETHICAL DEBATE People have addressed the ethical dilemma of euthanasia and assisted suicide since the beginnings of recorded history. Since then and to this day there has been no easy answer to the ethical question as to whether it is right or wrong. The issue arises today in part because the advent of life-sustaining treatment and other aggressive medical treatments to prolong life. When a person’s health cannot be maintained or restored does that person have the right to select how and when they will die”' In this paper I will present several arguments for both sides, the “proponents” of legalizing euthanasia and the “opponents” of not legalizing these practices. Think hard about each side’s viewpoint. Sooner or later we will see the topic on a ballot here in Florida. Others states, such as Oregon, Michigan and South Carolina already have. To start this discussion we must first clearly define what euthanasia is. As defined by Robert Veatch’s Medical Ethics, 2nd addition, euthanasia is the intentional killing of a human being by act or the omission of an act, for his or her alleged benefit. For example euthanasia euthanasia, suicide, death, person, right, life, medical, act, should, society, plato, others, hume, ethical, because, wrong, even, assisted, over, natural, killing, individual, ill, human, example, ethics, end, doctors, aquinas, against, thomas, themselves, suffering, state