Paper Topic:

Legalized euthanasia, potential benefits and risks.

Introduction

Across the country there are many patients lying in hospital beds doomed to stay there suffering until they die . This is because they are suffering from terminal illness . The question is should such people be allowed to take their lives if they desire

Biggest benefits

As Uhlmann (1997 ) argues making euthanasia legal would permit individual who are terminally sick to end their suffering and also the financial cost they are putting on their families . The person would also be able to end his /her life in a safe and inexpensive

manner

In addition to this , supposing a person is suffering day and night and can not recover , or has become a vegetable and he /she is in a permanent comatose , then it would be better to relieve such a person of his /her pain and offer the family members some peace if such a person chooses that his /her life should end . Another important benefit is that the government will be ale to save a lot on healthcare especially since these terminal ill patients are only supported by machines which is costs the government a lot (Uhlmann , 1997

Problems of legalizing euthanasia

According to Uhlmann (1997 ) the impact of legalizing euthanasia on the society is that , the very foundation of societal values and norms that people upload and the respect of human life would be damaged . The manner in which a person dies can not be taken just as a private issue , or a personal decision . But , it is...

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