Anti-Euthanasia
Uploaded by Miracle_yanks on Jul 25, 2007
Essay Question: Do you think euthanasia should be legal in Canada? Why/why not.
One biggest controversy of this decade is euthanasia. Euthanasia is inducing the painless death of a person for reasons assumed to be merciful. Countries had banned euthanasia today, but many people agreed with euthanasia. However, I insist euthanasia should not be introduced to Canada. Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing, is intentionally making someone die without pain, rather than allowing that person to die naturally. It sometimes ends someone¡¯s life, who is suffering incurable pain. Euthanasia is mostly illegal in the world today; it can consider as a kind of suicide, in other cases, it can be a form of murder. Euthanasia is nothing but cold-blooded killing. It shortens life, and it is morally and ethically wrong; here are two reasons why it should not be in Canada. First, I believe life has only once; there are many other people who care about you, why wouldn¡¯t you live and see those people again. Furthermore the doctors can abuse their authorities and murder a fine patient by using euthanasia. Last, it gives disadvantage to medicine making.
The strongest point is that Euthanasia should not be in Canada¡¯s legal because it is doctors are there to cure patients, and not trying to end someone¡¯s life. Doctors are here to save someone¡¯s life, but if a doctor practice euthanasia, it should be consider as a homicide crime. From reports said, there are doctors who accept money from other people who want to kill one of the doctor¡¯s patients; the doctor can practice euthanasia on that patient. Here is an example: on June 4, 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian¡ªa retired Michigan pathologist¡ªhad helped Janet Adkins, a 54 years-old Alzheimer¡¯s patient, kill herself. Dr. Kevorkian later revealed that he had not taken the medical history of Ms. Atkins, conducted a physical or mental examination, or consulted Ms. Adkins¡¯s primary care physician. Dr. Kevorkian had simply agreed to meet Ms. Adkins in his Volkswagen van, which he had outfitted with a ¡°suicide machine¡± consisting of three chemical solutions fed into an intravenous line needle. Dr. Kevorkian tried five times to insert the needle before eventually succeeding. Dr. Murray Raskind, one physician who cared for Ms. Adkins in the early stages of her disease, later testified that she was physically fit but probably not mentally competent at the time of her death. After that incident,...