Euthanasia usually refers to mercy killing, the intentional ending of someone's life who is very

ill. Euthanasia is requested by the patient, but sometimes it is requested by a loved one or even

recommended by a doctor. Euthanasia can be either active or passive. Active euthanasia is when

the doctor or nurses gives the patient something to deliberately make them die. Passive

euthanasia is when the patients dies of lack of treatment from the doctor or nurse. Euthanasia is

not legalized in most areas of the world. Euthanasia should be legalized to insure legal rights, to

alleviate suffering and to provide more hospital care and beds for other patients.

Euthanasia should be legalized to insure legal rights. Someone should have the right to

die. " People have the right to choose their own death at their own time as an expression of free

will" (Kowalski 6). There should be laws permitting this everywhere. Euthanasia is a very

humane and very good way to help people to end their lives. Nurses should have the right to end

patients life, but only if they request it. "Nurses are committed to compassion and empathy and

understand the basis of patient requests for assisted suicide" (Kowalski 1). Euthanasia laws need

to be legalized to protect peoples right to choose death. " This law will bring all assisted suicide

under closer scrutiny" (Bridge 1). Euthanasia laws should be carried out by every hospital in the

United States.

To alleviate suffering, euthanasia should be legalized. Many patients are terminally ill and

in great amount of pain. If euthanasia were legalized it would prevent suffering. " Acts of

euthanasia are preformed to eliminate suffering and allow the patient to die with dignity"

(Kowalski 2). The loved ones of the person dying should have some say in the persons future too.

The loved ones are the people who see the person suffer the most and if the person and their

loved ones both decide they should have a right to carry it out. "It is an act of love to stop this

suffering" (Combe 1).

Doctors feel that euthanasia is sometimes very necessary to relieve the patients of all there

suffering. The doctors and nurses at the hospital also have to see the patient suffer day after day

and if the person wants it and the doctor feels its right, it should be done. Out of 852 nurses

surveyed sixteen percent were said to have preformed euthanasia or help terminally ill patients

commit suicide (Heselberg 1). Euthanasia should be legalized because it would help many sick

and dying patients end their lives peacefully.

If euthanasia were legalized it would provide more care and hospital beds for many

patients. " 3,000 patients die each year after specifically requesting that their lives be terminated"

(Bridge 1). If euthanasia were legalized more patients would choose it to help them deal with

their pain and there would began to be less and less hospital overcrowding. It would also provide

more care for patients. Usually patients who request euthanasia are the ones who need the most

24 hours hospital care and if these patients want to end there life they should be able to, because

it would provide more care to other people. Also, hospitals spend tremendous amounts of money

each year on terminally ill patients. "Money spent on hopeless intensive care treatment could be

used better toward a package of benefits for all those in the Medicaid programs well as for other

social good" (Kowalski 7).

To insure legal rights, to alleviate suffering and to provide more hospital beds and care,

euthanasia should be legalized. Many people choose to die each year. If this is what that is how

they choose to end there lives, it should be carried out. People who are in al lot of pain and

choose to end their lives prematurely should have a choice of whether or not to live or die. If

euthanasia were legalized it would many thousands of people happier and in less pain.