Euthanasia

     Should a  patient who has lost all powers of reasoning and

who lives like a vegetable, totally hopeless  and helpless, a

terminal case who only wants to die, be forced to live?

The number of people who are asking this question increases each

day. Although the official position of the medical profession is

to maintain life indefinitetely, regardless of the condition of

the patient, but with certain cases, euthanasia should be

administered. 

     We are living in an age of medical miracles. Medicine, has

made so much dramatic progress, that lifesaving techniques were

thought to be impossible, a generation age. Ill patients

throughtout the world are kept alive by the use of

defribbrilators, respirators, pacemakers and other similar

equipment. A study was done by the American Encephalograhic

Soceity has concluded that when an EEG reading is what is  known

as "flat line" the person, is officially dead. What this actually

means is that although there may not be any brain activity, other

vital organs can work by means of certain equipment. Now heart-

lung machines can augment the duration of life. 

     Well some say that life is precious, HOW IS LIFE PRECIOUS,

WHEN IT CAN NOT BE LIVED TO THE FULLEST ?. 

     I believe that Euthanasia should be legalized because of

that option of dying. People say that their should be a option to

live, but I think that there should also be a option to die. 

Many also think that they should stay alive because they don't

want death for their own reason. Why not put them out of there

misery, if the pain that one goes through is excruciating why not

let them die.

     Many states have laws that state, that explain the condition

of when a person is deceased. States believe that they should

authorize the death of a individual when it is not really there's

to make. I believe that there should be a choice of death or

life. I am not saying who should make the decision, but all I am

saying is that Euthanasia should be legalized. Think of it this

way, if someone dear to you had died, you would instinctively

think that the person should live. Well, how do  you think that

the person that is dear to you feels?. Maybe he is in pain?

Although the organs may work, what is the difference between

death and a vegetable when the vegetable just has his vital

organs working, and both the decesed and the vegetable have no

use of the brain.