Assisted Suicide
is when one or more persons assist an individual to commit suicide.
When I say assist here, it is by means of helping the individual with
drugs required to do such an act or maybe even to get their hands on
certain equipment which hastens this kind of an act. People usually tend
to take this kind of drastic step when they are either in depression,
lack confidence to face the world, or maybe even when an individual for
that matter has suffered a huge loss in their business or areas similar
to a business, or may be shares of a company. Well, according to me
assisted suicide is something that a person must not be allowed to
follow or practice. Assisted suicide must not be legalized.
Where as, Euthanasia
on the other hand is the termination of a human life, because they are
living in an intolerable state and terminally ill, and they know that is
no cure, and there is never hope again that the individual might
actually live a normal life. An individual's life here, is ended either
by lethal injection, overdose of medication or may be even withdrawal of
life support or medication. Different types of methods allowed and
followed by certain countries and their jurisdiction in Euthanasia are:
- Physically Assisted, where the doctors prescribe a certain type of medication to be taken by the individual to hasten the process of death.
- Voluntary, where the individual agrees to go off life support, or withdraws themselves from medication or may be even takes a voluntary over-dosage of medication.
- Non-Voluntary, where with the approval of the individual, a family member or a close family friend performs the task. And last but not the least,
- Medical Sedation, this is a process where the individual is put to sleep medically, without any other treatment.
According to me, Euthanasia has to be legalized for people who have a
valid reason to end a loved one’s life. It is putting an end to their
suffering. But if the individual who is sick or terminally ill, does not
want to end their life and just wants to live the rest of their days
and enjoy them as they come, nobody should have the right, including the
law of the land, to take that away from them. The only question I ask
is, how can someone watch a loved one suffer and still want to put them
through more suffering for longer? With a quote, let me end my first
blog here. I am attaching a link to a video and also reading about a
wonderful boy's story, please make sure to check them. I will be back
with more thoughts and research on these topics.
“Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.”
― G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw
