Sociology

Everyone has the right to live and it is so that everyone has the right to die. The same way the right to vote goes along with the right to abstain and the right to free speech goes along with the right to be silent, so does the right to live go along with the right to die.  Patients, especially terminally ill patients should be allowed to die with dignity at the time they so wish. It is their body, their life therefore they should be at liberty to choose whether they want to live or end their life (Sather 174).

Human beings have the freedom to live as they wish and pointless restraints on human life should not be encouraged.  What is more, the right to life does not necessarily mean the life to exist. Therefore, terminally ill patients who feel like they are a burden to the people taking care of them should be allowed to end their lives. This is because they feel like they just exist rather than living and this may affect their dignity as they feel too dependent. Since human beings have the right to try and make things good in their lives, they also have the right to make their dying as good as possible (BBC Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia).

Further still, if a patient feels the dying process is unpleasant, heshe has the right to make it short so as to reduce the unpleasantness. What is more, the right to die should not be affected by the obligation to offer good to the society. Human beings are independent and everyone has the right to make decisions that are of individual benefit. Each individual is at liberty to control their life. This is why any mentally correct individual in terminal condition should be granted the freedom to choose when they want to die and how they want to die for as long as they are in a condition that causes them pain yet there is no hope in ending this misery (BBC Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia).

Terminally ill patients have the right to die with dignity. Denying them this right can only be considered cruel and unfair. It is only proper to honor the request of the patient if he so wishes for his life to be terminated. What is more any individual of sound mind is free to make decisions about his life and death. Apart from that, everyone is entitled to a lucid and dignified death. It is pointless to let an individual live in utter pain yet he would wish to have his life terminated (Lane Euthanasia)

Euthanasia is a patients right because it saves them from the pain and suffering experienced when in a terminal condition. What is more, it helps to clear up the long wait for the inevitable. Still, a patient may request euthanasia when the medical expense is way beyond his means. Some patients prefer to leave the finances to their families instead of having it spent on their medical costs especially when chances of getting better are only slim. It is only fair to honor their wish at this time (Zimmerman Euthanasia).

Furthermore, certain terminal conditions diminish a patients quality of life greatly. In these cases, such patients have to be cared for continuously since they can not be independent. Some patients feel that this bruises their dignity yet they would want to die with dignity. What is more, the patient may not be willing to go on with the hard life of pain with no hopes of getting well. According to them, euthanasia would be of great help since it will release them from the pain they have been going through (Zimmerman Euthanasia).

Patients may be suffering from an illness that is unbearable and intractable. Such conditions put the patient in a state of sheer pain. Since euthanasia is administered only when the patient consents to it, it is only fair to grant it in case it is requested. The physician does not compel the patient to go for this option. If the patient finds his condition unbearable, it is his right to get himself out of that situation (Gewertz The Right to Die).

Euthanasia allows patients to break away from the notion carried about death. Most people believe that giving in to death is like accepting defeat. This notion might be true in cases where an individuals quality of life is in perfect shape. However, the case is different for patients in incurable conditions. As much as they would wish to live, their deteriorating health can not allow them to go on. Therefore instead of facing the long wait as ones health deteriorates, a patient has the right to cut this process short by requesting euthanasia (Gewertz The Right to Die).

Further still, a patients right to die also benefits his loved ones. This is because they will be at peace knowing that they honored the patients last wishes. What is more, it also saves them agony of watching their loved one in pain yet there is nothing they can do about it and eventually watch as he succumbs to death. It is the patients right to have his wishes fulfilled. If the patient wishes that his organs be donated to patients who need them, it is his right to choose euthanasia so that the organs do not deteriorate as would be the case if left to die naturally (Sather 174).  

Quite a number of Americans also agree that euthanasia is the right of a patient. For instance, a survey sponsored by the Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center reveals that in a sample group of 2000 people, 90 strongly agreed that adults who are competent enough to make decisions on their own should be granted the right to decline life sustaining treatment. This is so even when the doctor or family members object this decision. Still, about 79 agreed that the potential quality of a patients life should be thought about when deciding whether life sustaining technology is to be used (Schmeck 90 in Poll)