Essay On Euthanasia

“Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma”, (The New Oxford Dictionary of English). It derived in the early 17th century from two Greek words, ‘eu’ meaning well or good and ‘thanatos’ which means death. Therefore, when a person is subjected to euthanasia, their death is good. Euthanasia is categorized in three various ways, which include involuntary, non-voluntary and voluntary; each type can either be passive, when the patient is allowed to die or active, when the patient is killed. Voluntary Euthanasia should be legalized because it will end the suffering of the patients. If a terminally ill patient is in constant pain twenty-four hours

Patients who are terminally ill and do not want to live occupies the beds and resources that could be used for people who want to live and get better. If someone has expressed a desire to die, it is beneficial to stop waste resources on that person and use it on someone to improve their life because they want and have the desire to live. Legalizing euthanasia would not only be beneficial for the ill patients; in fact it would also be beneficial for future generations to either not have a particular disease or increase the quality level care for the future patients of the particular disease. Distributing resources to further research diseases to help other ill patients is extremely beneficial. In addition, if the patient who wishes to die by euthanasia is an organ donator and the organs are healthy, the organs can save several lives. When a person is terminally ill and has a communicable disease, the longer they are kept alive, the risk of others being affected by the disease increases. Once the individual chooses to die, it would help prevent the transfer of the illness they have to others, especially to other ill people. Therefore, legalizing euthanasia is extremely smart and beneficial for other ill people in helping those who want to live,