Why Euthanize?

Its pretty basic, the effect of euthanasia is always going to be death. That isn’t a brain busters that people are trying to wrap their heads around. The real question that people struggle to grasp is what causes people to want to be euthanized.  To most people, the thought of ending their own life is foreign, they have trouble grasping why anyone would want to do it, and tell themselves that the thought would never cross their mind.  For the people that qualify for euthanasia, this is not only a thought for them, it is a serious option.

The desire of euthanasia can be the effect of years of dealing with the constant pain that certain terminal diseases can cause a patient. The argument is made that with enough medicine, there is no suck thing as “unbearable pain”, that with enough pain killers, the patient won’t feel a thing.  Not only does this method of dealing with the pain become very expensive, it can create a loss of dignity.  When a patient is being kept alive by heavy doses of medicine, they lose their sense of independence.  The patient becomes confined to a hospital bed, their only outside contact is those who come to visit them. They can begin to feel like a burden to their loved ones, knowing that, even though it sounds terrible, their death would ease a large amount of stress from their families shoulders. all of these struggles causes the patient to want their lives to come to an end.

Work Cited

Guy, Maytal. “The Desire for Death in the Setting of Terminal Illness: A Case Discussion.” NCIB.gov. Primary Care Companion, 12 Feb. 2006. Web. 5 Apr. 2015.