Arguments for and against Euthanasia.

The debate over euthanasia in countries has centered on euthanasia within regulated health care systems. In some cases, judicial decisions, legislation, and regulations have made euthanasia an option for patients and their guardians. Here are a few reasons given as for and against euthanasia;

For:

• Emphasize that choice is fundamental principle
• The pain and suffering a person feels during a disease, can be incomprehensible to a person who has not gone through it. Without considering the physical pain, it is often difficult for patients to overcome the emotional pain of losing their independence.
• People who have witnessed their loved ones suffer and die, know how difficult it is and opt that the law has to be changed when it to comes to opting euthanasia for loved ones. 
• Due to increasing population, the space in hospitals are getting lesser and lesser to keep patients admitted in hospitals for long periods of time, and also these hospitals are expensive. for the economic costs, it should be allowed.

Against:

• Compromise the roles of  health care professional employees, especially doctors. 
• Christians consider euthanasia as some or all types to be morally unacceptable, because it is treated as a type of murder or suicide, the morality of which is an active subject of debate.
• It is believed that, a sick person disease is curable, instead of killing, might be able to find a cure to the disease so that the person is cured. 
• It is believed that, the patients who are terminally ill, may be forced to consent to euthanasia since they do not want to be a burden on their loved ones, in ways of finance. 
• Competence of a mentally ill person is difficult to determine, in order to get a consent or take steps for euthanasia. 

( references: Euthanasia and the laws. BBC News. December 2002, Euthanasia. Encyclopedia. 2001 - 07)