Euthanasia

Euthanasia Pro-euthanasia people typically portray euthanasia as a case of individual liberty. If a person decides that he wants to die, perhaps you or I do not think this is a good decision, but what right do we have to tell him that he cannot do this' They usually describe a situation like this: A person has some terrible, deadly disease. He is trapped in a hospital bed, with all sorts of medical equipment connected to him, unable to move or do much of anything except exist. He is in terrible pain. He begs to have these machines disconnected, so he can go home and live out whatever life he has left and die in peace. But the doctors refuse, because to turn off the machines would surely result in his death, and they have an ideological bias against doing a thing like this. In a real life case, this happened to a 78 year old Massachusetts man. Earle Spring is confined to a wheelchair with almost no communication to the outside world. “For more than two years, since his physical and then mental health began to detoriate, Earle Spring has been kept alive by spending five hours on a kidney dialysis machine three times a week. Since January 1979, his family has pleaded to have family, life, decision, person, because, make, living, medical, judge, hospital, euthanasia, die, suicide, depression, death, wanted, treatment, should, people, patient, illness, situation, right, own, might, doctor, disease, decisions, committing, case, although, woman, unable, someone, request, refuse