IT’S MY LIFE, IT’S MY DEATH

Euthanasia means to take a deliberate intention of finishing a life to relieve an unmanageable situation from pain. Nevertheless, some people are against euthanasia for their beliefs or culture; therefore actual efforts to legalize it have developed multiples debates in our society, but why should it be legal? According to the World Health Organization, an assisted death allows any patient to set free from a physical pain, yet religion is not in its favour due to the opinion they have about God. However, each person should be able to decide when and how to die considering factors such as illness, freewill, and dignity.

First of all, the main reason for being in favour of euthanasia is the terminal diseases, taking into account that the mercy killing releases the person from having an awful and painful life; it is a fact that the victim under a terminal disease must carry on an expensive and long treatment. Based on Statistic Brain, the majority of cancer patients wish their life ending because they got the sensation of how that terrible morbidity is killing them slowly; besides, their families also suffer with them because of economic reasons; it means, for painkillers, transport, and so on. On the other hand, euthanasia could avoid a huge suffering to the patient in cases like a bone cancer, brain cancer, prostate cancer, and illnesses like that. For example, Belgium allows the easy death for everybody even for children since owing to being more aware of what euthanasia and life are. Although life is something amazing, aid in dying should be considered as a part of it due to having a patient sorrowing is not giving him a better quality of life, so that if someone of my family or a friend desires to die peacefully, I would support him due to choosing how we want to die is not an option that we all get.  

Secondly, being a human makes you a free willing person, regardless your age and genre, considering that the type of quality of life is defined by the inmate, not by the doctors or government, thus if the patient’s decision is to die, so be it. Furthermore, according to Statistics Brain, the 54% of physicians from United States approved the euthanasia because in many cases there are no solutions; even though if the doctors could offer to the patient any kind of treatment or options, it is the patient who must decide how long he wants to exist. Additionally, is there a point wasting your days in a bed, and prolonging your family’s sorrow? When there is nothing that science can do about it.  By contrast, life is something personal; hence if someone wishes to pass away, we ought to help him with his last request. Alongside history, we have seen several cases wherein the sick person has agreed with euthanasia like George V who was King of the United Kingdom from 1910 until his death in 1936, and had a dreadful lung disease, something that made him to decides on for euthanasia; indeed, he died by a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine. As for if I ever see myself under a terminal disease, I will not have any doubt of accepting it, owing to euthanasia could give me away the best days of my life.

“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”  -Milan Kundera

Moreover, people agonizing cannot be autonomous due to the powerful treatments, and mobility lost. When a patient is in an intense sorrow or is under a severe mental anguish, our society will be doing more hurt by keeping him alive than permitting him to die; in some cases like Brittany Maynard, who had a brain cancer, decided to take euthanasia on November first because she did not want to forget her husband and families faces, in view of wishing to pass away with her complete memories; it means, her first time making love, kissing, cooking, having fun. (This brain cancer over time will make her to omit her whole lifetime, and at the same time she will have beyond all bearing headaches) is that fair? Further, Statistic Brain says that the 86% of people agree with euthanasia for terminal illness, and 56% of terminally ill patients die beneath a terrible pain. Now, imagine yourself having a terminal cancer, which in the future is not going to let you move where you want to; spooky and terrifying, right? But with euthanasia the fact that you know when you are going to die because we could die in a painless way, would not it be that perfect? That is the reason we need to get euthanasia legalized.  

All in all, life belongs to you, so it is your choice when to stop it taking into account your sicknesses, freedom, and autonomy. In addition, as I already said, I would like to die peacefully like Brittany Maynard carrying with me my best recompilation of my funniest moments because if I did know when I could die; for example, next week; every day of my life would be as valuable as a million of yen; whereby If I were aware when I could die, I would live my death, my choice and my life.