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Week 5: “Euthanasia: Is it moral decide about our death?”
Week 5: “Euthanasia: Is it moral decide about our death?”
When the
Problem Is in Front of You.
Starting an Article about euthanasia is not an easy thing to do. First
I’d like to give a short description of what is it.
Euthanasia (from Greek: εὐθανασία; "good death”) refers to the practice of intentionally ending a
life in order to relieve pain and suffering. Of course according to each country laws there can be a change in the definition,
but the main idea is the same.
I can tell our readers a first-person history that takes place in 2011.
My country was deliberating the idea of legalize abortion. As a huge part of
the society is catholic and religion doesn’t allow it, there were, as in most
debates, two sides and two points of view. We made a class tribunal to talk
about it with it in our biology class. The debate was very interesting with
people sharing their ideas supported with their own knowledge. When we’ve
finished the debate we went to our classroom and we continue talking about it
in a more relaxing way. Suddenly someone said: “Isn’t it the same idea of
euthanasia?, you just finish a life” He didn’t know the teacher has lost his
wife in the fight against cancer. The teacher didn’t get angry, he just tell
his own history. “…Look, I know what are you thinking about, maybe you think
it’s easier to finish that way than fighting. But I fought, we made all
possible treatments. Sometimes you feel the other person is right, it looks
well, it smiles… But it’s a vanishing effect of the treatment, and then you see
the person suffering again and again, and you don’t want that for someone you
love…” Those words get me thinking.
I can tell our readers a first-person history that takes place in 2011.
My country was deliberating the idea of legalize abortion. As a huge part of
the society is catholic and religion doesn’t allow it, there were, as in most
debates, two sides and two points of view. We made a class tribunal to talk
about it with it in our biology class. The debate was very interesting with
people sharing their ideas supported with their own knowledge. When we’ve
finished the debate we went to our classroom and we continue talking about it
in a more relaxing way. Suddenly someone said: “Isn’t it the same idea of
euthanasia?, you just finish a life” He didn’t know the teacher has lost his
wife in the fight against cancer. The teacher didn’t get angry, he just tell
his own history. “…Look, I know what are you thinking about, maybe you think
it’s easier to finish that way than fighting. But I fought, we made all
possible treatments. Sometimes you feel the other person is right, it looks
well, it smiles… But it’s a vanishing effect of the treatment, and then you see
the person suffering again and again, and you don’t want that for someone you
love…” Those words get me thinking.
We can all talk about moral decisions, give our points of view, but at
the end you don’t know what’s going on when the problem knocks your door. How
many people is prepared to let a beloved one suffer knowing this can’t be
changed?
I don’t think this is a moral thing when a person is asking euthanasia.
Just a medical one, if the person is really suffering and there’s no way to
help, what moral decision can be taken there? Doctors are qualified and have a
huge technology equipment to give the correct treatments to patients, but when
they can’t, patients are the ones who should decide about their life.
Although these should be controlled, there are cases and cases. Government
can’t let people just asking for this solution, but also I think, they can’t
avoid them to take it.
By Winston
Smith, Argentina
20 years old
20 years old
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