We all saw Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman who became the centerpiece of a national right-to-die battle, died on march 31, nearly two weeks after doctors removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more than a decade. she had committed no crime, died of dehydration and starvation in the longest public execution in American history.Her crime was being disabled, voiceless, and at the disposal of our media.
what EUTHANASIA is:-
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The word Euthanasia originated from the Greek language: eu means ’’good’’ and thanatos means ’’death’’. One meaning given to the word is ’’the intentional termination of life by another at the explicit request of the person who dies.’’ That is, the term euthanasia normally implies that the act must be initiated by the person who wishes to commit suicide. However, some people define euthanasia to include both voluntary and involuntary termination of life. Like so many moral/ethical/religious terms, ’’euthanasia’’ has many meanings.thus this is an intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.The key word here is ’’intentional’’. If death is not intended, it is not an act of euthanasia.
Reasons to take this ultimate path:-
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Some are severely depressed over a long interval. To them, suicide may be a ’’permanent solution to a temporary problem.’’ There is a consensus that a better solution for most clinically depressed people is treatment, using counseling and/or medication. Such treatment can give to the person decades of enjoyable life which would have been lost if they committed suicide.
They live in excessive, chronic pain. Some, due to poverty or lack of health-care coverage cannot afford pain killing medication. Others are denied adequate pain killers because of their physician’s lack of knowledge, inadequate training, or specific beliefs. Most physicians feel that suicide in such cases is not a preferred solution either; a better approach is proper
Is it justified??
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This doesn’t matter whether it is legal or not.we must be wary of those who are too willing to end the lives of the elderly and the ill. If we ever decide that a poor quality of life justifies ending that life, we have taken a step down a slippery slope that places all of us in danger. There is a difference between allowing nature to take its course and actively assisting death. The call for euthanasia surfaces in our society periodically, as it is doing now under the guise of ’’death with dignity’’ or assisted suicide. Euthanasia is a concept, it seems to me, that is in direct conflict with a religious and ethical tradition in which the human race is presented with ’’ a blessing and a curse, life and death, ’’ and we are instructed ’...therefore, to choose life.’’ I believe ’euthanasia’ lies outside the commonly held life-centered values of the West and cannot be allowed without incurring great social and personal tragedy. This is not merely an intellectual conundrum. This issue involves actual human beings at risk.
At the end I would like to quote mr. Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of Hospice- “you matter because you are you, you matter to the last moment of your life and we will do all we can, not only to die u peacefully, but also to live until you die.”
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Being extremely new to MS, all you people must have found the lack of precise writing in the review, even I am not aware whether all u people will take it as a review or not. I would be so thankful if u give ur kind attention to my work and give me a necessary feed back so that next time I can come up with a good review.
Thanking u
Saurabh kashyap.