You might just die too! (Euthanasia)

Member Name: JacintaZoo

Product:	Euthanasia
Date:	29/11/00 (49 review reads)
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Disadvantages: loss of life

THINK ABOUT IT!

Ok. Say the government decides to hang itself and make euthanasia legal.

You may be outraged, you may even be pleased with the decision. Whatever your response, whatever your moral view on the situation this doesn't change the fact that YOUR own life may be put at risk by legalising euthanasia.

Given the desperate lack of funding in the NHS, and an ever-increasing elderly population, it would not surprise me to hear of a scandal whereby patients who were critically ill were killed by euthanasia who did not in fact wish for this to happen.

I mean euthanasia is not about switching off the life support machines of the already dead. It is about giving people lethal injections to send them into a permanent sleep.

Of course the guidelines and monitoring of euthanasia patients will be stringent, but the whole idea of condoning the taking of life inroduces a new doctrine into the Hippocratic oath. It creates a climate whereby death is considered the answer.

Before you jump to support the idea of euthanasia on the basis that it's humane, just ask yourself if you could trust a doctor who has already taken several lives and has his eye on your bed with the next young sprightly patient with a higher chance of living than you waiting in line.

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