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Essay / Controversy and ethics: the euthanasia debate - 2830
If a patient suffers intolerable pain day and night with no means of recovery, should he not be allowed to end his life by means of legal law. Terminally ill patients should not be encouraged to undergo ineffective medical treatments by persuading them that they will be cured when they will only prolong their dying process. A patient who requests to be euthanized after suffering agonies should be discharged upon request, as it would be inhumane for someone to continue to suffer. When a patient is at this stage of their terminal illness, doctors should be allowed to grant their patients whatever they desire to do with their lives. If a patient does not want to live the lifestyle of suffering that they are forced to live in to get through a day, a doctor can grant their dying wish. As human beings, we have the right to decide what is best for our own lives. If you were in the place of a person who suffers from pain day and night, would you accept the therapies that doctors offer you even if they will not cure you but will further prolong your days of suffering until you die. Why would you want to be tied to a bed with machines all over you both just so you could be artificially alive? There's no point holding on to something that's already gone. This is why