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An Overview of the Debate Over Euthanasia and the Right to Die
Euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide is often not a personal decision consciously made. The patient is usually beyond saving and it becomes the choice of family by the suggestion of doctors to end life support. The choice is not, in the Kantian (Philosopher Immanuel Kant) sense motivated by self-love where suicide is a selfish means that will cause pain to others. Rather it is a medical need where sustaining life any longer would only result in further physical pain of patient and suffering in their family. When considering the philosophical basis for most moral dilemmas and the laws that pertain to them, they often strive towards individual happiness. In the case of euthanasia then it is important to ask if in artificially supporting a life, the individual will be capable of happiness or giving others happiness? For someone who is comatose or in a vegetative state, is sustaining their life maintained in hopes that they will regain the ability to realize happiness? Then it must also be considered whether or not the state or federal government has a say in how an individual or their family, assisted by a doctor, may choose to end their life. It seems that each individual should be entitled to will such a personal decision in the sense of a need and not only a want. As such, it is a need when the person ends their life because it is physically unbearable with incurable ailments and not just a selfish want of suicide. This approach is only relevant when an individual has stated beforehand their wish to be relieved from a vegetative state. Several philosophers and lawyers in a Brief of the Amici Curiae (Friends of the Court) argue that individual or familial entitlement to such decisions should not be influenced by the government demanding valid evidence to support the decision. Read more about the philosophical and legal aspects involved in the national debate over euthanasia. Link provided for Jason Cangialosi's content profile at Associated Content. |
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