Euthanasia Essays (342 words) - Euthanasia, Medical Ethics

Euthanasia Euthanasia Euthanasia has brought great attention to the public eye since Dr. Jack Kevorkian was discovered for contributing to these horrible inhumane acts. At the present time, the state of Oregon has the world's only law specifically permitting a doctor to prescribe lethal drugs for the purpose of ending a patient's life (http://www.iaetf.org/faq.htm). Why has only one state that happens to be in the United States contributed to this horrible controversy? Euthanasia tends to attract people that are terminally ill who desire death and are usually depressed. A good medical doctor would prescribe an individual some antidepressant medication before taking ones life. Euthanasia allows a bad doctor to have too much control over an individual's life before resulting to the necessary and proper measures of their true mental state. Also, modern medicine today has proven to be very beneficial to dealing with pain. A person needs to find a new doctor that can prescribe them drugs pinpointed more to their condition that can actually do something for their pain rather than taking the easy way out and resulting to death. People that have had someone like Dr. Jack Kevorkian assist in their death are crying out for help, they are allowing death to be their last measure to result to in life. Euthanasia activists are allowing people to believe that it is an acceptable solution to result to when life gets you down. How can an individual solve a problem by getting rid of the people to whom the problems happen? Overall, people that wish to end their own life as a result to euthanasia are not in their true mental state when making such a decision. People need to learn to appreciate what life can offer and not concentrate on the many obstacles that we all encounter during our lifetime. If people can learn to adapt new attitudes about managing and dealing with life and not always taking the easy way out, our country would have no states allowing this horrible inhumane act to be legalized. Social Issues