Q. What do you think about Euthanasia and of its moral aspects?
What do you think about Euthanasia and of its moral aspects?
What is euthanasia? Its types
Almost in all sources euthanasia is defined as “kind death”. Euthanasia is a way of ending the life of people suffering from uncurable or severe illness. There are several types of euthanasia. From medical point of view it can be active and passive. During passive the life support is turned off and the patient dies. The doctor doesn’t do anything for the patient to die, but influences his death in a passive way, for instance he may stop giving the patient medication to make his life longer or switch off the breathing equipments. During active euthanasia doctors intervene into the process of depriving the patient of life. The doctor either injects medicine or influences the death in another way. The usage of these two types of euthanasia can be brightly seen in Jack Kevorkian’s example, who is known by the name of “DoctorDeath”.With the help of the machine he had invented, he would expose people suffering from severe ailments to euthanasia, with their consent of course. American-armenian doctor has assisted the death of about 130 people. In all cases the injection of medicine was done with the help of the patient, so Kevorkian had no intervention into the deaths, thus using passive euthanasia. Only once did the American-armenian doctor use active euthanasia, when the patient was not able to push the button himself, so Kevorkian did it instead of him. As a result he received 10-25 years of imprisonment. There are voluntary and non-voluntary types of euthanasia according to the patient’s consent. The voluntary implies a state where the patient is conscious, is able to express his wish, or is unconscious, but left a note in advance (which must have a legal basis), where the patient states that in case of winding up in a situation, which can not be called “life”, he or she prefers to die. That is to say voluntary euthanasia is applied with preliminary agreement. Non-voluntary euthanasia is the condition, when the patient is unconscious, unable to make a decision himself, in this case a surrogate (friend, relative, wife, husband) decides for the patient.
I have few questions…
Do you agree with the use of euthanasia on a person suffering from a severe disease with the consent of another person, a family member, a relative?
Do you agree with the use of euthanasia on a patient suffering from a severe disease with their own consent?
Do you agree with the legalization of euthanasia?
