Euthanasia Utiliarianism and Morality of Death Essay

Im not afraid of being dead. Im just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there† (Pamela Bone). The sense of dying or losing a loved one is a conception that has plagued any family member at some time or another. How will one deal with the struggle of burying their loved one, the bills, and not waking up and seeing them or calling them every day? More so, will that person be in the pain when they leave their physical form? Euthanasia, or assisted suicide, gives a person the chance the take the ending of their life into their own hands and make, an otherwise undefined, decision of how he/she would want their final moments to be. In this paper I plan to display that based on the utilitarian perspective, Rachels’ writings,†¦show more content†¦From a religious (specifically, Christian) standpoint, God is in total control. He will decide when their daughter able to heal or pass, as life is a gift from him and there should be no other beings tampering with that gift (Rachels 100). Some people might argue that nurses and medical personnel are not permitting God’s will when they are interfering in giving artificial feeding/breath rather than letting God’s decision to save or take the child. So, when can it be a mercy killing? In this case, would it be for the child that probably has no perception of good or bad, just wailing when something is painful? Or would it be the expense and emotional duration of pain on the parents. So many factors contribute to the arguments for and against euthanasia. Several ‘types’ of euthanasia can be explicated and classified into advantageous and detrimental reactions based upon the morality and philosophy of the persona surrounding the forms. Active euthanasia refers to the deliberate act of ending a patient’s life. This can be done via parenteral injection of lethal amounts of drugs (Ebrahim 73). In, hopefully all, cases of active euthanasia, this is administered b y a physician. So, where does the harm come from this? Just like in Sigmund Freud’s case, he was being consumed by cancer and needed a way out (Rachels 100). In today’s society, health care workers look to a Living Will or, if available, get the