Euthanasia: To Help Or Hinder? Essay, Research Paper

Personally, I disagree with euthanasia. I don’t think God

intended for man to decide when, where, and how to take

anyone’s life.

Sometimes we as humans feel we are helping others and

in actuality end up hurting more than anything. A prime

example is Dr. Kevorkian. Kevorkian assisted approximatley

thirty people with euthanasia. He and his patients thought

they were helping to end a life of pain and misery. In reality,

they left behind more pain and misery than peace. I think

it was morally wrong to let Kevorkian kill all those people

because had he been a minority, with society being the way

it is today, he would have been arrested after the first few

acts of euthanasia. But because Kevorkian is viewed as a

powerful white male he was allowed to “get awat with” numerous

euthanasia killings. I thought this to be very inhumane seeing

that after he assisted the people in dying, he dropped their

bodies off at different hospitals. To me, this is like

someone dropping garbage off at a waste site. That does’t

seem very caring or humane to me. It looks like you’re just

out for the financial rewards to be obtained as a result of a

service.

Another point that makes me curious about Kevorkian and doctors

like him is that the American Medical Association does not

honor or acknowledge them. Personally, I wouldn’t want

anyone like this assisting me with any medical matter.

There were several patients who did not give Kevorkian

permission to perform euthanasia, but he did anyway. These

people’s rights were violated. If they were like a lot of

terminally ill people, they aren’t able to consent to

anything. If these people are in this condition, how can you

help them? You can’t even determine if they want your help or

not. It is not up to another human to determine the fate of someone

else. Because of this god-like pratice, we need laws passed

against euthanasia before it is uncontrollable. If it is not

put under control, eventually, hospitals and everyone else

will perform euthanasia without asking permission from

anyone. Who knows, someone who is not very knowledgeable

may order this “mercy killing” when it is not needed; If this

becomes a habit there, will be a lot of people dying

needlessly.

There are a lot of people like Dr. Kevorkian who have good

intentions, but who carry them out through the wrong actions.

These people will be held accountable for their actions in the

end, if not in a court of law, then by God.