EUTHANASIA

Euthanasia is the practice of medically-assisted death. The term euthanasia comes from the Greek words "eu” and “thanatos” which combined means “well death” or "dying well". Euthanasia may be good and might be bad in some ways. There are situations where euthanasia must be done to someone although he likes it or not.

In the first situation where the patient is in comma for a long time and the chance for him to be consciously and mentally alive is very thin and there is no hope, thus euthanasia is necessary in this case. This is because rather than to let him to just lay in bed and it might be a 'torture' to him, it is better to just let him die as he might be paralysed. Apart from that he has no feelings and his mind is empty i.e he can't even think of anything. His brain doesn't work well as he doesn't get proper food for his brain and body. This means that the doctor needs to inject glucose into his body in order to keep the brain to still 'working'. This is because the brain is the controller to our whole body and it needs to work properly in order to control our body.

The second thing is that apart from it is a torture to the patient, it is also a torture to his family. His family might feel sad all the day with the hope that he will be consciously alive one day although they know that the chance for him to be mentally alive is very thin. The family comes to see him everyday but it is always frustating that he still doesn't even make a move although he is breathing. This is a torture to his family and their sorrows might affect their daily lives. This means that it is better to just let him die as the longer the family.. 'keeeps' him, his family live will become more worse.

Besides that, euthanisia might save the cost of treatment of the patient who has thinner live opportunity. This is because for example if there is another patient who has more opportunity to be alive, then it is better to treat that person in order to get him well and thus he has the chance to live again and as if it works then this person may have the opportunity the valuable things in his lives. This sounds viscious that the one who has thinner chance of live need to be 'killed' for another person. But this is live; why should waste the time for the person that doesn't has the chance to live?. we should have given the opportunity to another person who has more chance to stay alive mentally and physically.

However, euthanasia should not be done in some circumstances. For example is that although he doesn't has more chance to be mentally and physically alive, we should wait for it until he has made a physical move that he can still live. This is because there is a case where the person who is in comma for a long time is becoming conscious mentally and physically. This shows that euthanasia is not necessary in this case.

Besides that some family cannot accept if the person they love so much is dead and it is so-called rude to 'kill' the person so in this case euthanasia is not necessary. This is because it might make the family to become 'insane'.

In my opinion, I agree if euthanasia is to be done in appropriate situations.