Essay on Euthanasia or mercy killing. (should be at least 300-350 words).
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Imagine a body slowly and excruciatingly being broken down by an unseen and uncontrollable invader. Now imagine that there is a law preventing anyone from ending that suffering. Welcome to the argument over euthanasia. Euthanasia is defined as "the act or practice of killing out of mercy." Euthanasia technically exists in four categories: active, passive, voluntary, and involuntary. Passive euthanasia is the act of removing all treatments and forms of life support intended to prolong life or cure illness, and allowing the patient to die of natural causes. Active euthanasia consists of an outside force actually causing the death of the patient, or hastening the death with the use of drugs and other tools. When the patient is fully competent and capable of making this life or death decision on his or her own, it is considered voluntary euthanasia. If the decision is made for the patient, due to him or her being rendered incapable of this sentient conclusion, it is labeled as involuntary euthanasia. For the past several decades, this has been a major issue, making its way from activist groups to the Supreme Court. The debate over euthanasia was ignited publicly in 1988 with an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine about an experience in committing active euthanasia. The act of euthanasia, in either passive or active form, is acceptable in only one nation in the world. Even there, in the Netherlands, it is permitted in only certain cases as specified and supervised by the legal system, and has yet to be fully legalized. Euthanasia should be legalized because it is a personal choice.
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Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing, is the medical procedure of painlessly killing of a person suffering from a very painful and incurable disease. The decision is taken by the patient or by the closest family members in case the patient is unable to answer due to coma or lost of his or her sense. One has to look at both sides of euthanasia and draw one's own conclusions because our upbringing and our views are not the same.
It is legal in India but it is frowned upon the society. Further their are many other laws which must be fulfilled first. Euthanasia relieves a patient from dying a slow painful death. The organs can be donated to save several lives, two kidneys for two persons, a heart for one patient, a liver for another person, two eyes for two persons, etc. No patient can receive two organs because there are many people in the waiting list and also dying due to lack of organ donors.
Euthanasia is still a sensitive subject. Family members find it a very difficult decision to make. Many people think that it is unethical and that doctors should be strictly occupied with curing and not killing. But there are also many people who find comfort in the fact that their deceased loved one is continuing to live in the body of other people.