Reasons for Euthanasia

Euthanasia: Reasons

1- Unbearable pain
2- Right to commit suicide
3- People should not be forced to stay alive

1. Unbearable pain as the reason for euthanasia probably the major argument in favor of euthanasia is that the person involved is in great pain. Today, advances are constantly being made in the treatment of pain and, as they advance, the case for euthanasia/assisted-suicide is proportionally weakened. Euthanasia advocates stress the cases of unbearable pain as reasons for euthanasia, but then they soon include a "drugged" state. I guess that is in case virtually no uncontrolled pain cases can be found - then they can say those people are drugged into a no-pain state but they need to be euthanasiaed from such a state because it is not dignified. See the opening for the slippery slope? How do you measure "dignity"? No - it will be euthanasia "on demand". The pro-euthanasia folks have already started down the slope. They are even now not stoping with "unbearable pain" - Nearly all pain can be eliminated and - in those rare cases where it can't be eliminated - it can still be reduced significantly if proper treatment is provided. The solution is to mandate better education of health care professionals on these crucial issues, to expand access to health care, and to inform patients about their rights as consumers. Everyone - whether it be a person with a life-threatening illness or a chronic condition - has the right to pain relief. With modern advances in pain control, no patient should ever be in excruciating pain. However, most doctors have never had a course in pain management so they're unaware of what to do. If a patient who is under a doctor's care is in excruciating pain, there's definitely a need to find a different doctor. But that doctor should be one who will control the pain, not one who will kill the patient.

2. Demanding a "right to commit suicide" Probably the second most common point pro-euthanasia people bring up is this so-called "right." But what we are talking about is not giving a right to the person who is killed, but to the person who does the killing. In other words, euthanasia is not about the right to die. It's about the right to kill. Euthanasia is not about giving rights to the person who dies but, instead, is about changing the law and public policy so that doctors, relatives and others can directly and intentionally end another person's life. People do have the power to commit suicide. Suicide and attempted suicide are not criminalized. Suicide is a tragic, individual act. Euthanasia It's about letting one person facilitate the death of another.

3. Should people be forced to stay alive? No. And neither the law nor medical ethics requires that "everything be done" to keep a person alive. Insistence, against the patient's wishes, that death be postponed by every means available is contrary to law and practice. It would also be cruel and inhumane.

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my opinion about urban violence

As far as i'm concerned, violence is present in a lot of countries around the world.
People doesn't payn attention to this problem but it's a serious and inportant situation be live now a day. I think that it must be some institutes or organizations that helps people who has anyone violent in the family...

Urban violence: street children

“I feel this horrible depression when I see that
other people want to help me. I start thinking about
a happy, close family that I don’t have… If my own
family don’t love and support me, why should anyone
else care? That’s what depresses me the most .”

Flor Salas is 16 and has been living on the streets of downtown Mexico City since she was 10. Her home is on a corner sidewalk of a major street, and consists of a small sofa, two planks and a sheet of plastic.
She sleeps inside with six other children; two more children sleep on mattresses outside.
Violence has followed Flor throughout her short life – first within her family and then on the streets. Two years ago, she had a violent fight with a girl who was seeing her boyfriend. Flor was two months pregnant at the time, and lost her baby. Her almost perpetual state of sadness is deepened by the complete indifference of her family. “They don’t even know if I’m dead or alive,” she says.
Approximately 15,000 children live and work on the streets of the Federal District of Mexico City, according to a national government study. Another study carried out by UNICEF and the municipal government showed a 20 percent increase in street children between 1992 and 1995 – an annual growth rate of 6.6 percent Children can be seen at ‘work’ every hour of the day and night. In the city’s subway stations, they sing, beg and shine shoes for coins. They sleep in the passageways covered with newspapers, dazed and sluggish after inhaling
‘mona’3 to ward off hunger and fatigue.
At night, crowds of boys and girls stand on the corner of Metro Hidalgo and Alameda waiting to sell themselves to any and all customers. In the old part of town, at Candelaria and La Merced, the fresh faces of 11 - to 14 yearold girls are mingled with those of aging and haggard sex workers.
Most street children have fled abuse, desperate poverty and neglect within their own families. Like Flor, they have desperately and naively hoped to find sanctuary and freedom outside their homes, only to encounter rejection, exploitation and violence.