Euthanasia - Key Points and Elements
Euthanasia - Key Points and Elements
AGAINST
As far as I am aware, all countries outlaw the sale and use of heroin. There is NO RIGHT to sell heroin. There is NO RIGHT to take heroin. These are just a couple of things for which no legal right exists. To people who say that physician-assisted suicide is a "right", as if that should be the end of all discussion and debate, I say there are many things that are not rights. Many of these are ones that would hurt the individual for whom you claim these "rights". Yes, there ARE cases where society must protect people from themselves- whether from addiction to harmful drugs or from compulsive gambling or from a depression or other mental ailment that dictates that they destroy their own lives.
FOR
Life is a precious gift that should be cherished, preserved, and enhanced in every way possible. But when the potential for meaningful, joyful, desirable life has been exhausted and every effort made to prevent the inevitable, we should make it legally possible for the merciful to show mercy to those who request intervention to end their intolerable suffering.
Those who oppose the legalizing of physician-assisted death make arguments and voice fears that are formidable indeed. Nevertheless, I conclude that the stronger case rests with those who advocate the legalizing of assisted death under carefully regulated conditions.
FOR
We must allow all mature, competent persons the freedom to choose the time and manner of their dying.
AGAINST
Criminal Code; Section 241: Everyone who either consents a person to commit suicide or aids a person to commit suicide whether suicide ensues or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.
FOR
Hope is a wonderful thing. Hope provides a purpose for life. Hope also keeps patients trapped in their mortal coils as they wither away to nothingness.
FOR
To take a person's life without their consent is understood as murder. However, many people with incurable diseases, or those with painful illnesses would say that they would rather die than to spend the rest of their days suffering.
GENERAL INFO
Active Euthanasia: An active intervention by a doctor to end life (i.e. giving a lethal injection or increasing the dosage of medication to speed up (or induce) death).
Passive Euthanasia: Deliberately withholding...