Euthanasia

Q: Define euthanasia. Then defend or condemn the practice and justify your beliefs.

A: Euthanasia: 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, esp. a painful, disease or condition.

Euthanasia is illegal in most countries, but should be legalized in said countries. Euthanasia allows human beings and animals to be put out of their misery and end their pain. It is one of few ways to end one’s life without the effect of pain or the long process of the actual death.

If I were to suffer from some sort of accident, I already have my life after the event planned out. I have thought of just being kept alive, but after a year and no hope for recovery, I would prefer to be euthanized. To me, if you are brain dead with no chance of recovery, plugged into some machine, it really is not life. If that were to happen to me, heaven forbid, I would not want my family to have to pay for me to “live” that sort of life. I would hate to have them suffer; visiting a hospital, and look at their sister or daughter lay in a bed with no chance of recovery. That to me seems extremely wrong.

Euthanasia to me is a very logical option. Between brain dead and suffering patients to over crowded animal shelters, euthanasia seems to be the logical choice. Although it is hard to see someone die, I’d rather see them die knowing they are at peace than seeing them continue to suffer in their painful life.