Euthanasia

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‘A person has the right to die if they wish’
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In this discussion we are talking about euthanasia, this is killing someone who wishes to die but cannot perform the act themselves, or they can but feel that committing suicide would take away the dignity of dying in peace. Euthanasia is mainly debated due to people not agreeing about how someone can judge someone else’s quality of life. This is because your personal definition of quality of life could be the ability to get up and go to work every morning or being able to do what you please, but for someone who cannot walk very well it maybe simply seeing relatives and being in contact with other people.
Some people would argue that people in a vegitive state have no quality of life and so euthanasia is acceptable here because they are only alive because of a life support machine and they do not know what goes on around them, they are just there. The problem with people in this state is we do not know if they wish to die or not because they are disabled and cannot give a sign either way.
This is when living wills come into use, they are wills written while you are still at full health and when they no what they are doing. They state that if dying whether to resuscitate or not, this in some peoples eyes is not euthanasia just letting u die instead. But doctors are not supposed to do this because of the Hippocratic oath that was written in the 6th century which states that doctors should preserve life not destroy it. This is why Christians believe that euthanasia is wrong.
Euthanasia is also done illegally by the help of doctors who help people who want to die but the problem with this is that if the doctor is caught they will be prosecuted and sent to jail. Some people believe they are doing good because they are ending peoples suffering and this is healing people in a way.
The Christian point of view is that of using hospices instead of euthanasia. The point of hos...