Dignity with dignity
This essay supports that laws should be enacted to give people who have come down with terminal illness but are mentally competent to ask for euthanasia. Giving these patients a choice is the compassionate, humane and rational, and it promotes human rights. Deathly sick people should be given the freedom to make decisions during the last years of life. The law should allow people to get enough information, support and education on decisions about ending lives. Furthermore, it will allow everyone to have access to euthanasia for everyone who has terminal condition regardless of their economic background.
In my opinion, the right to privacy or freedom should mean that people should have the right to choose what happens at the end of life. Death with dignity means that one wants peaceful and painless death, and it gives closure to the family and the patient (Lally, 2019). Most patients who need death with dignity have lost independence, social capacity, dignity and have no hope of recovery. In some cases, death is inevitable and maintaining the life of such a patient requires a lot of resources with no hope of ever being healthy again. In my opinion, one is meant to live his or her life, and if there is no living, then there is no need of going through painful medical procedures to prolong the inevitable.
Patients must have an incurable disease to be able to die with dignity. In this condition, doctors have determined that from a medical perspective, the health of the patient cannot be improved. It means that patients cannot improve their quality of life. Also, a patient who has received many treatments without improvement, for example, a cancer patient who has performed many operations, may declare his decision to continue treatment. As a rule, the law of dignity should be applied only if it is established from a medical point of view that there is no hope for a better life (Faculty of Public Health, Health Statistics Center, 2016).