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Euthanasia

    Euthanasia, commonly called mercy killing or painless death, is the action or omission intended to end the life of hopelessly sick or injured patients on the grounds. It is an issue causing heated debates.
    Many opponents consider that euthanasia should be forbidden for three reasons. First, some people treat euthanasia as a type of murder and suicide, the morality of which is the subject of active debate. Secondly, you will never know when the illness is curable. Maybe the solution is just around the corner. Finally, if euthanasia was made legal, it is hard to prevent abuses that people would be killed who didn't really want to die.
    Nevertheless, the adherents own different ideas. The proponents argue that people should be allowed to decide to die in dignity and without pain. Besides, living only in bed makes some patients feel meaningless. In fact, regardless of personal intention, making hopeless people alive violates the personal freedom and human rights. Moreover, there is no doubt that we face the limitation of economic costs and human resources. Not all families can sustain the financial and emotional burden of taking care of the patient and if we can spend the hospital resources no the people who can be cured or who really want to be alive, they could have a better quality of     care.
Therefore, the backer claims that doctors should be given the right to execute euthanasia by the agreement of the patient or the family.