Euthanasia: a decent death
Over the years and currently euthanasia is a very controversial issue due to people’s different positions in the world. Euthanasia is described as the act or carelessness that accelerates the death of a patient evicted with the intention of avoiding sufferings, this description is inscribed to death without bodily suffering.
Talking about euthanasia is to enter a complex issue that meets ethical, legal, medical and sociological nuances, which make it a matter of complex solution, it is true that despite different situations that pass evicted patients, their main right of every beinghuman is life, but when this right is affected by unfortunate health conditions, we wonder if life is taking care of or prolonging the agony that can lead us to death. So what does euthanasia mean for us? Is it a dignified death? According to my point of view, euthanasia should be legalized to avoid so much pain to patients who take it for so many years before a terminal disease, euthanasia can also be called homicide by compassion, that is, the cause of the death of another byPiedad before so much suffering, which is why there are very degraded or dying patients who should be helped, if they voluntarily accept it, we make the decision what to do with our body, which is also to abide by the condition of the other. On the other hand, what is unworthy for those people is to induce death.
My objective in this essay is to explain this situation, through a reflection on euthanasia and its ethical, legal and philosophical implications, since it is based on the dignity of every person, the ethical problems posed by death by compassion, and the approach ofThis problem is the right to live without suffering.
In the first place, euthanasia was also practiced in ancient civilizations for social reasons such as Greece, Sparta, India, Mesopotamia, among others, which, these cases were more really about a eugenics, linked to the cultural valuation of health, strength and beauty, according to Moordecide to die ”(Para.9).
In this philosophical work it means that people who suffer from a disease are no longer useful, they no longer have the reason to move forward with their life, because through that disease that is charging their lives, there is nothing to do,since they also find out to be unbearable to others.
Second, euthanasia is its own fact, it is a person’s free decision, so the doctor’s function is to diagnose and facilitate that decision once the patient has taken it, but of course the ethical and moral principles of aDoctor can prevent that collaboration, which, this is a respectable decision, but there may also be some doctors who do not have this composure, so much so that they can contribute and collaborate with these patients once they have made their decision, according to Dan Brock(2008) states that: "… medical decisions about when, to what extent, they need to use broader normative concepts than only health, for example," which makes a life better "or simply" a "aGood Life". (Para. 6).
This tries to say that through the doctor’s diagnosis towards patients is to carry out good communication and trust to reflect or think carefully what it would mean for the patient to have a peace of mind and good life in their environment.
Thirdly, euthanasia is prohibited in Peru, but given different discussions, debates, etc. Several projects were given to legalize euthanasia, one of them was from the Dignity and Democracy bench by former congressman Roberto Angle (2015) states that: “… the project seeks to give the possibility towards a decent death, in order to suppress the sensation of the sensation of theatrocious pain to people suffering from a terminal disease ”. (Para. 7).
That is, the former congressman’s project seeks calm and avoids the agony of the patient who seeks the end of pain in him every year;But unfortunately this project could not be executed, becoming the last time, but until today there was no possibility to discuss again on this issue in our country.
However, a survey of Peruvians was carried out on whether or not they agree with euthanasia, El Comercio (2015) points out that: … 52% of Lima is in favor of euthanasia, while 40%disapproves. The difference is even greater when asked if they are in favor of euthanasia for terminal patients in a plant state, which responded that 63% is favor and 32% against.
In this way, there is a clear advantage that most people are in favor of euthanasia, both adolescents, young, adults and the elderly are in accordance with what statistics say, but due to this law we cannot access euthanasia.
On the other hand, euthanasia is opening a great step in the world, a fact is that, through seven countries, euthanasia is allowed in the field of right to decent death, as Fernández (2019) points out when referring toThe first countries that accepted euthanasia:… in this this Holland since it was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia on April 10, 2001, then continued Belgium and in 2008 Luxembourg, later in Switzerland, Uruguay, Argentina andAlso the five states of the United States.
The first to legalize euthanasia was the Netherland17 years old, they will not need paternal consent, but their participation in the process of a decision, however, the other countries that legalized it, does not require these conditions.
A clear example is the case of Noa Photoven, a 17 -year -old Dutch teenager, affected by having had posttraumatic stress, anorexia and depression;He was a victim of sexual abuse at age 11 and 12, and rape at the 14You can request adolescents or young people with psychic pains, their suicide attempts and lasting until they find adequate treatment have been a national attention call, most of the Dutch media echoed the history of Noa praising their courage, that is why his case reached the national media in 2018 and subsequently published a book, win or learn, where he told his story. The book won a prize last March, and Noa said then: "I don’t know if I will continue writing," it is so, in June 2019, he died from starvation (an extreme physical weakness caused by the lack of food).
Another example is the most appreciated by all teenagers, a romantic film, which gives us a clear reflection on what is happening with the main actor, the film is me before you, this film has become the target of strong criticisms ofspectators who affirm that this cinematographic material promotes euthanasia, which not only presents the message in favor of the euthanasia of "Everyone can decide what to do with their life", but shows a whole ideology, whose highest value is "live life to the fullest ”;The main actor (Traynor) when he is tetraplagic, his self – esteem and mood evaporate and the only option he raises for his new condition is suicide. Until he meets Louisa, a cheerful young woman, Parlanchina, who decides to hire as her personal assistant, is thus born that a romance is born between the two, but finally Traynor decides to end her life, applying euthanasia and leaving the inheritance to Louisa.
Finally, euthanasia is a decent death that remains a controversial issue, as we have seen in different cases of authors, in statistics and in the examples that are known how euthanasia is being analyzed and carried out in different countries, so we must reflect that euthanasia is the opportunity of patients with already terminal diseases to seek tranquility and end so much suffering that they face.
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