EUTHANASIA IS ETHICAL
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Euthanasia Is Ethical
Opponents refuting the concept of medically Helped suicide (Euthanasia) would likely claim that intervening to ease patient suffering in dire situations amounts to unethical medical practices. Specifically, annotating that medical practitioners ought to protect life and not end it since the medical ethical notion of non-maleficence advocates for avoiding patient harm, respecting individual existence, and fair medical practices (Sulmasy et al., 2018). Further, the opponents relate to religious doctrines that decode that life is sacred and it is God’s responsibility to give and take life.
However, the study purposes to differ from the opponents. Depicting the dire and dilemma situations that medical personnel and patient go through due to unforeseen calamities such as hurricanes. Mercy killing is an appropriate choice to end the incessant pain that patients with chronic deluges such as leukemia experience. Allowing continuous suffering to the patient and emotional agony to the family is immoral and unethical, especially for diseases that afford the eventual demise of the patient due to lack of any invented treatment process (Sulmasy et al., 2018). Relating with the principle of beneficence, the medical personnel need to intervene. The decision to intervene is acting in the best interest of the patient. It is logical to hasten the process to end the pain rather than deserting them to suffer, unattended, and eventually perish.
Furthermore, experts describe that chronic conditions incur many expenses in treatment that extend paucity, mental and physical strain to the benefactors (Ababneh, 2018). It is illogic and unfair to drain the savings that could significantly benefit benefactors, significantly if the condition advances imminent demise by the patient. Medical personnel confronted with life-threatening situations ought to act on a logical decision to conduct a lethal injection of morphine to aid the victims with honorable demise. Further, the decision should not amount to medical neglect since saving owns life is a basic human instinct. Besides, the doctor can save more lives in the future through professional practice as a qualified doctor, thus more advantageous alive than dead.
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Ababneh, A. M. T. (2018). Physician Helped Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients: An Argumentative Essay. J Palliat Care Med, 8(337), 2.
Sulmasy, D. P., Finlay, I., Fitzgerald, F., Foley, K., Payne, R., & Siegler, M. (2018). Physician-Helped suicide: why neutrality by organized medicine is neither neutral nor appropriate. Journal of general internal medicine, 33(8), 1394-1399.
