Every Human being born in this world, has the right to life. Euthanasia, known commonly as mercy-killing, destroys the very right to existance. medicine and technology have grown leaps and bounds in recent years. Medicine today, has greater power over existance than life and death itself. It has the power to prolong life that seems uninteresting, or terminate life without suffering.
In my opinion, euthanasia is a wrongful practice and should not be legalised. nobody can destroy something that each one of us has been gifted with. Euthanasia is a practice where in one is put to sleep or his life is taken away in a peaceful manner in order to overcome suffering. Life is seen as a curse to a number of people, most of who are suffering from disease and pain. Their easy remedy to escape this "so called curse" is ending life in a peaceful manner, or the practice of euthanasia. Nobody is created perfect, and everybody will, someday, drink from life's cup of sorrow. many are ready to brave these challenges and fight life. But, the many who give up on life, are the ones that contribute to this wrongful practice of voluntary Euthanasia.
We hear of millions of cases of non-voluntary Euthanasia taking place, only beacause a child is born mentally, or physically handicapped. Do these children not have as much right to life as we do? They are seen as a burden on the family, and their very existance is not desired. these childre are born with as many desires as the rest of us have, and as many dreams to fulfil, as we have. But, they are deprived of basic existance.
The many people that are born paralyzed, the many who cannot express their feelings in words, and the many that are bed ridden for life, all of whom have the basic desire to live. Their right to existance is taken away by the many of us who can walk, talk, and lead a normal life. This evil practice of involuntary Euthanasia is still in practice today, in many countries at large.
The hippocratic oath states that "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel." Then why, is Euthanasia still in practice today? I strongly believe that every human being is born with the right to live, and should acknowledge their right to live !
Completely support your views. Euthanasia is still too controversial to implement as a law. better to err on the safe side.
ReplyDeleteA recent incident brings this to focus. A quadriplegic accident victim could communicate only through his eye lid movements. After a few months, this stopped too. The doctors decided to pull him out of life support. On the fated day, they asked the patient one last time -"Do you want to live?". Totally unexpectedly,the patient with a lot of really hard effort blinked to mean YES. Imagine the hope the patient carries having been on life support for so many months and being helpless but still cherishing the desire to LIVE.
Till we find the God Particle, euthanasia is not some thing I would support.
Kudos to you for your views.
Thank you gopika for making an effort to let people know about this sensitive issue. Mercy killing should definitely not be supported . Each one reading this blog and beyond has a right to live and euthanasia is violates our fundamental right to life.
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