School
This is school work. I did it in Wordpad so I won't be cheating since it has no spell check or grammar correction. (My computer has no Microsoft Word anyway D:)
This subject is interesting, though, I'm quite neutral about it, to be honest. Sometimes there really is a time when the pain is too much, for the patient and also for the family. I hope you guys would like my essay. The underlined words are part of my teacher's task. We have to write at least five of her assigned "relationship words".
Should euthanasia be legalised?
There was a recent wave of controversy over the release of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. the infamous Doctor Death. He was convicted because he was responsible for the death of hundreds of his patients. Some call him a murderer, others argued that what he did was merely euthanasia; the merciful killing of the hopelessly sick. When Dr. Kevorkian was first arrested, it had sparked many debates over whether euthanasia is justifiable and if it should be legalised. There are many opinions contending to this debate, however, I firmly believe that euthanasia should never be legalised.
People who support euthanasia claims that it is helping people because it is the shortening of the suffering of terminally ill patients. Besides, the patients themselves gave the consent for them to be euthanised. So the legalisation of euthanasia should have no problems, right?
This is not the case. Consensual or not, like homocide and suicide, euthanasia is ultimately the taking of people's lives. Life is unpredictable. What would you do if you just performed euthanasia on a patient and a cure of their illness is discovered the very next day? Would you be able to bring him back to life for him to get cured?
Moreover, how much suffering can a person take before it is deemed too much? Who is able to provide the gauge? For instance, in 1981 a man crashed his airplane while attempting to land it one day. His neck was broken, his spinal cord crushed, and every major muscle in his body was destroyed. Doctors told him that he was no longer able to perform any bodily function except to blink his eyes. His injuries were too severe for him to even survive.Yet, survive he did. Surely, a man who is suffering so much deserves mercy killing?
However, if someone did perform euthanasia on the man, millions of people around the world would have lost an exceptional motivational speaker. This man, Morris Goodman, had managed to rebuild his body, mind and outlook on life by sheer determination and Hollywood had even filmed a movie based on him, named "The Miracle Man".
Additionally, I believe that the value of a human being's life would be smudged even more pertaing to the legalisation of euthanasia. If euthanasia is merely bringing forward the date of death, then how different is it from mindless killing since everyone would eventually die? What about the intellectually disabled? Do we euthanise them because they would suffer through life having to be different from us?
There are simply too many factors to consider regarding the legalisation of euthanasia. Both sides have its pros and cons. We can argue that it is a person's freedom of choice yet we can also say that nobody has right to take away anybody's life. Unless the morality of this subject can somehow become less vague, I believe that the legalisation of euthanasia should not even be broached.
Please comment ^^;;; I'm hoping for an A1 for my English this year and every little bit counts.
This subject is interesting, though, I'm quite neutral about it, to be honest. Sometimes there really is a time when the pain is too much, for the patient and also for the family. I hope you guys would like my essay. The underlined words are part of my teacher's task. We have to write at least five of her assigned "relationship words".
Should euthanasia be legalised?
There was a recent wave of controversy over the release of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. the infamous Doctor Death. He was convicted because he was responsible for the death of hundreds of his patients. Some call him a murderer, others argued that what he did was merely euthanasia; the merciful killing of the hopelessly sick. When Dr. Kevorkian was first arrested, it had sparked many debates over whether euthanasia is justifiable and if it should be legalised. There are many opinions contending to this debate, however, I firmly believe that euthanasia should never be legalised.
People who support euthanasia claims that it is helping people because it is the shortening of the suffering of terminally ill patients. Besides, the patients themselves gave the consent for them to be euthanised. So the legalisation of euthanasia should have no problems, right?
This is not the case. Consensual or not, like homocide and suicide, euthanasia is ultimately the taking of people's lives. Life is unpredictable. What would you do if you just performed euthanasia on a patient and a cure of their illness is discovered the very next day? Would you be able to bring him back to life for him to get cured?
Moreover, how much suffering can a person take before it is deemed too much? Who is able to provide the gauge? For instance, in 1981 a man crashed his airplane while attempting to land it one day. His neck was broken, his spinal cord crushed, and every major muscle in his body was destroyed. Doctors told him that he was no longer able to perform any bodily function except to blink his eyes. His injuries were too severe for him to even survive.Yet, survive he did. Surely, a man who is suffering so much deserves mercy killing?
However, if someone did perform euthanasia on the man, millions of people around the world would have lost an exceptional motivational speaker. This man, Morris Goodman, had managed to rebuild his body, mind and outlook on life by sheer determination and Hollywood had even filmed a movie based on him, named "The Miracle Man".
Additionally, I believe that the value of a human being's life would be smudged even more pertaing to the legalisation of euthanasia. If euthanasia is merely bringing forward the date of death, then how different is it from mindless killing since everyone would eventually die? What about the intellectually disabled? Do we euthanise them because they would suffer through life having to be different from us?
There are simply too many factors to consider regarding the legalisation of euthanasia. Both sides have its pros and cons. We can argue that it is a person's freedom of choice yet we can also say that nobody has right to take away anybody's life. Unless the morality of this subject can somehow become less vague, I believe that the legalisation of euthanasia should not even be broached.
Please comment ^^;;; I'm hoping for an A1 for my English this year and every little bit counts.