Let’s let people make their own choices
Let’s not force people to carry on living if they feel they can’t.
I’m not sure if you might have read or saw on TV news of the euthanasia advocate who assisted people to die.
Well if you haven’t, here’s a little background story on it: Sean Davison from the Western Cape assisted three people to die in different ways. These were the people and the ways he assisted them to die:
Anrich Burger, via a lethal amount of drugs in November 2013; Justin Varian via a bag over his head and administering helium in July 2015, and Richard Holland in November 2015 via a lethal amount of drugs.
Davison pleaded guilty in a court of law and he was sentenced to eight years house arrest for murder in a plea deal in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday.
Five of the years have been suspended.
The court ruled that Davison will effectively serve three years under house arrest, performing community service.
What is euthanasia?
The dictionary meaning of it is that it is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.
Synonyms are: mercy killing, assisted suicide, etc.
Now that we have explained what euthanasia is, let me tell you what I think of it. I think there are two sides to everything.
While people might see it as wrong to have a person assisted to die, I feel that everyone should have a choice on when they would like to die, especially if and when they feel that they cannot handle the pressures of the world.
Euthanasia can be a way to end people’s pain.
Those terminally ill, those who are in grievous pain, mercy killing would be a better way of ending their pain.
One would say euthanasia might be an added course of abuse as one would kill someone then claim that they wanted to die but I feel that there could be ways into dealing with that like maybe making sure that someone goes for counselling first to make sure that they can really make a decision for themselves to die.
Either way, people are already committing suicide out there, so euthanasia can help them in having a less painful death.
Let’s not force people to carry on living if they feel they can’t.
That’s just my two cents.
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