What are the main arguments for euthanasia?
Euthanasia should be one of most basic rights a person can have when he is terminally ill or in chronic pain, because denying them the freedom of death is the most inhumane thing we can do. If your dog is ill and in pain, you will euthanasiate him, because you are feeling empathy towards his suffering. Why do we want so much for people to suffer? And not only them, their family are suffering too. How do you think the sight of their dearest person in constant pain, what emotions do they get? I suggest you to read some essays on this topic, so you could understand my point of view, here is a good site with essays https://studymoose.com/euthanasia
There are three main arguments for euthanasia. • We want it – the autonomy argument • We need it – the compassion argument • We can control it – the public policy argument The debate in the 1990s centred on the compassion argument, but because of cultural changes and palliative care’s success, has moved to arguments based on autonomy. What is autonomy? Autonomy means ‘self-determination’ and the language heard now in the euthanasia debate is often that of choice, control, freedoms and rights. The euthanasia lobby’s thrust, as evidenced in Lord Joffe’s Bill, has moved from euthanasia as a needed response to symptoms to euthanasia as an autonomous choice by those with, for example, degenerative neurological disease. Shouldn’t euthanasia and assisted suicide be a matter of free choice? Autonomy is important but we have laws because autonomy is not absolute. We all value living in a free society but also recognise that we are not free to do things which threaten the reasonable freedoms of
