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Pro Euthanasia Research Paper

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Euthanasia, also known as physician assisted suicide, has been a topic of controversial and passionate debate. Euthanasia is referred to mercy killing, better defined as “the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition” according to Dictionary.com. This is a subject that leaves a person with mixed emotions and strong beliefs. It also raises legal issues which deal with issues of morals and ethics. Euthanasia should be legalized because it gives terminally ill people the opportunity to avoid excruciating/unendurable pain. These terminally ill patients should have the right to end their suffering with a quick, but yet compassionate death. Furthermore, by legalizing euthanasia it makes …show more content…

According to ProCon.org, “it has been argued that the right to die is protected by the same constitutional safeguards that guarantee such rights as marriage, procreation, and the refusal or termination of life-saving medical treatment.” There are certain circumstances and situations where the right to die is necessary. Most patients who choose physician assisted suicide are dealing with conditions that have caused them to live with excruciating and unbearable pain in which there is no cure. It is not right for them to have to live this way if they do not have to. As Stephen Hawking, PhD, cosmologist and theoretical physicist, stated in an interview with BBC, "I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their lives and those that help them should be free from prosecution. We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?" As individuals, we should have sovereignty over our own body. The choice of euthanasia is reassuring and helpful for terminally ill patients to have the option. It would be supportive to have this control if

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