You Have The Right To Die
You Have The Right To DIE
It is said that advances in medical technology allows people to live a little longer. Technology has helped people live longer but it also has given birth to a new issue, Euthanasia. Many people do not want to die hooked up to machines or the people who are terminally ill and just do not have the strength to fight through their own physical pain or who cannot bear to see their family members suffer. Few decades ago when they did not have all this technology to keep people alive with different life support machines, death was fast and inevitable, but technology has slowed down the process of death. Even though people relish life and would like to live as long as possible, these can be very painful, physically and emotionally, days in a person's life. I believe that Euthanasia is the choice of an individual and not the state, because after all it is their life.
Although the statement made above is true, it is not always as good as it sounds. Modern Technology can help one live longer but it does not ensure one a high quality of life. In the essay "Individuals Must Choose for Themselves Whether Euthanasia is Ethical" by Ronald Dworkin from the book Euthanasia Opposing Viewpoints. Dworkin talks about a forty-five year old New Yorker Patricia Diane Trumbull who was suffering leukemia and refused chemotherapy and bone-marrow transplants. Even though she knew this treatment would give her one in four chance of surviving, because Patricia knew of the ravages of the treatment and did not think the chances were good enough for her to endure the treatment (25). Patricia made a decision that she thought would be in her best interest, she looked at the pros and the cons and made an educated decision based on her situation.
Dworkin also talks about "Lillian Boyes, a seventy-year-old Englishman who was dying from a terrible form of rheumatoid arthritis so painful that even the most powerful painkillers left her in...
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