Euthanasia

Euthanasia

Recently I heard of euthanasia from my classmates in the class, they have briefly describe to us the meaning of euthanasia and the different types of it. The term Euthanasia originated from the Greek word for "good death." It is a way to end a person life by injection or termination of medical treatment. The types of euthanasia are voluntary euthanasia, involuntary euthanasia, and active euthanasia. 

In my opinion, the most acceptable way to end a person’s life is voluntary euthanasia where a competent person makes a voluntary request to be helped to die. Normally the request is made by a person in a vegetative or coma state. The purpose of making this decision is because they do not want to be the burden of their lovely friends and family. They want them to have more freedom and happiness instead of staying in hospital to take care of them always. Furthermore, the financial burden of taking care of patient will be reduced.

On the other hand, I think that if a patient still has the chance to recover from their sickness. We should give them the right to fight for their life instead of ending their breath arbitrarily. This would make a miracle if they success in their battle against sickness and it will be a new start for the person. But if finally the patient unable to secure his life, it will not feel regret of his decision because he has make the greatest effort to survive. I will have such thinking because I was inspired by my relative.

One of my relatives was suffering from breast cancer. She was trying to heal it by consuming different types of medicine but unfortunately her effort was fruitless. Finally she decide to do Chemotherapy, she lost her beauty and health during the treatment. She strived hard to survive for her family and herself. But unfortunately she passed away two years ago after few years of treatment.

As a conclusion, I think that a person should not end his or her life easily without making any effort to secure his life.