Why should a patient who has lost all powers of reasoning and who lives.
like a vegetable, completely hopeless of regaining a previous state of being, a terminal case .
who only wants to die, be forced to live? The number of people who are asking this.
question increases each day. Although the official position of the medical.
profession is to maintain life indefinitetely, regardless of the condition.
of the patient, but in certain cases, euthanasia should be legal to administer. Due to expenses, a .
person's own choice to live or die, and a person's need for virtue to continue life, euthanasia .
should be legalized.
Living in an age of medical miracles, medicine has made so.
much drastic progress, that lifesaving techniques that are common today were thought to .
be impossible, a generation ago. Ill patients throughtout the world are kept.
alive by the use of defribbrilators, respirators, pacemakers and other.
similar equipment. A study was done by the American Encephalograhic Soceity.
has concluded that when an EKG reading is what is known as "flat line" the.
person, is officially dead. What this actually means is that although there.
may not be any brain activity, other vital organs can work by means of.
certain equipment. Now heart- lung machines can augment the duration of.
life to unreasonably expensive extents.
Euthanasia should be legalized simply because people should have the option.
of dying. Its a common saying that their people have the option to live, but there should .
also be a option to die. Most cases where enthanasia could be applied involve patients that .
want to die. Its rather common for patients that have become medically dependant on .
machines to want to die, but rather the wishes of the family or care-takers of the patients .
are fulfilled. People know when they are going to die and they are also aware of when they .
need to die.
Enthuansia should become an option for terminal patients who know they have .
