Every day more and more people think about euthanasia, but their opinions are fundamentally contradictory. Some consider this a good deed, while others consider it a murder, which must be categorically prohibited. Recently, several European countries, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, have officially decided that euthanasia, for and against which people speak out for whose opinion society is listening, is permissible. The same goes for the US states of Oregon and Washington. But almost all other countries of the world and the US states oppose it, considering it a criminal offense. Euthanasia in Russia is also prohibited and prosecuted by law.
General concept
In order to understand what euthanasia is, for and against the use of which people so often speak out, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with some fundamental provisions. Two types of euthanasia can be distinguished - active and passive. The passive form is the refusal of therapy, which supports the patient, and the active form is the introduction of any drugs or the performance of actions that shorten the patient's life. In addition, it is necessary to distinguish between involuntary and voluntary euthanasia. If the patient is conscious, then he has the right to decide for himself whether to continue to live or not. If not, then this decision is usually taken by relatives.
Two sides of the coin
One of the most controversial issues of modern medicine is euthanasia, for and against the use of which the arguments are not so easy to find. On the one hand, medical progress allows you to successfully reanimate the patient and maintain his life with the help of special devices and drugs, but few think about why a person needs such a life if he does not have a hope for recovery. In addition, theoretically, every person has the right to manage his life at his discretion. But in reality it turns out that people, when they become weak, can no longer do anything and surrender to the mercy of relatives, not having the right to cut their own lives.
Morality
The main problem of euthanasia is its moral side. Opponents of this procedure believe that, in fact, euthanasia is an ordinary murder, which means that a certain group of people gets the right to decide whether a person should live or not, and act in accordance with their decision. Supporters of euthanasia, on the contrary, believe that this will allow a person to completely control his fate, to which he has every right.
Real life
Practice shows that a fairly small percentage of people under 40 think about their death and about such a problem as euthanasia, for and against which there are many reasons. But before you make a decision, you need to carefully weigh everything. People of pre-retirement and retirement age also rarely think about how they will spend their last days, which expresses the mentality of Russian citizens who believe that such thoughts can be “incurred". The record low number of wills issued in Russia is also associated with this phenomenon, since people are not very interested in what will happen after their death.
Life should bring joy, and a meaningless existence, depending on the life support equipment, will not bring happiness to anyone. In many countries of the world, relatives are simply forced to disconnect patients from the devices, since they do not have a huge amount of money to maintain them. In this case, a voluntary advance decision of the patient that he agrees to such a procedure, and the signing of papers on the conduct of passive euthanasia, would be an excellent way out. For and against it, each person will have his own arguments. In most countries, this concept is inextricably linked with organ donation: in the countries of Western Europe, which our politicians and officials love to equal, it is believed that every person who did not apply for refusal in life can become a donor.