Should Euthanasia be Legalized?

Should Euthanasia be legalized?
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Should Euthanasia be legalized?
Every individual is at risk of getting ill at one point or another. Even though some illnesses could be treated easily, others could be terminal, which the patient could struggle to recover. This scenario has caused a discussion regarding euthanasia, where some people support it while others oppose it. Euthanasia is intentionally killing another person to save the person from pain and suffering. The common types of euthanasia are voluntary and involuntary euthanasia. Voluntary euthanasia is the condition where the patient having a sound mind, consents to die. On the other hand, involuntary euthanasia is performed without the patient's consent because the patient is unconscious and the patient's wishes are not yet known. The debate regarding the legalization of euthanasia is one of the most controversial and contentious issues in the world currently. Some define the following concepts using biomedical research, religion, and politics. The common debate that people have been having in different countries is whether euthanasia should be legalized. Government should not legalize euthanasia due to inaccuracy in disease prediction, missing palliative care, violating human consent, lack of respect for life sacredness, violating maleficence, beneficence, and justice principle, an increase in deaths from non-terminally ill people, doctors offering false information, limiting medical options, and costly and long process of changing the law.
One reason why euthanasia should not be legalized is that terminal diagnosis prediction is rarely accurate. Similar to other diagnoses, there are instances where healthcare professionals make some mistakes. For example, some studies have shown that most patients live much longer than when the doctor recommended that they live. In this scenario, it could be wrong to employ euthanasia since it could cause harm to the majority of individuals. In this scenario, it could be negative to legalize euthanasia since it could likely cause more harm than good to the general population.
Moreover, euthanasia denies the patient the benefits of palliative care. One of the reasons why patients visit doctors is because they believe they can cure their condition. The doctor should therefore do whatever is possible to help the patient recover. Similarly, even when the patient has a terminal disease, the doctor should employ measures to improve it. However, rather than trying to improve it, euthanasia will be a process that looks forward to taking the remaining person's life from the individual. Rather than emphasizing euthanasia, the doctor should emphasize palliative care (Huemer et al., 2021). Individuals specializing in palliative care will likely benefit from spiritual, social, and physical problems resulting from their health. Moreover, people having non-fatal diagnoses are likely to benefit from palliative care. Furthermore, giving up on the patient's life due to the problems will send a negative message to the patient. Rather than giving up on the patient, the doctor should look for measures to improve it. Euthanasia should, therefore, not be...