Risks of Euthanasia

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of euthanasia legalization have claimed that terminally ill patients should have a right of death, opposers believe that this right of death would put lives of terminally ill patients at risk. Securing the life of an ill patient is more important. Therefore, euthanasia should remain illegal because it opens patients to risks of premature suicide and intentional murder.
If euthanasia is legalized, many patients probably will commit premature suicide. Victoria Macdonald, a journalist, states that "Dr. Keith Andrews at the Royal Hospital for Nuero-disability, who led the study into patients in PVS, said the findings were frightening. Over two years, fifteen out of eighty patients thought to be in a persistent vegetable state came round." (Walker, 15) This proves that doctors may diagnose the conditions of a patient inaccurately; a patient with a non terminal or curable disease may be said instead, to have a terminal disease. If the patient then requests for euthanasia, committing ...

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of The National Post found that: 34.6 percent of respondents, believed they would be able to administer or prescribe lethal medication to an incompetent patient upon a relative's request." (Schadenberg, 1) This shows that if euthanasia is legalized, then patients may be killed against their own will, because about one third of doctors in Quebec had just recently admitted that they would help a relative kill a patient without consulting the patient first. If the relative had always wanted to kill the patient, legalization of euthanasia would allow them to murder legally! It would be a free way ticket out of jail and crime. "Suzanne Vandeput, a twenty-four year old woman, was found ...

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