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A institute of medical ethics said, “A doctor acting in good conscience is ethically justified in assisting death if the need to relieve intense & unceasing pain or distress caused by an incurable illness greatly out weights the benefit to the patient of further prolonging his life.”
Many doctors find feeling of reluctance to do it. They find that the practice is intuitively wrong is against their profession.
Only God can give or take life we cant play God or nature's role must take its course then whole medical practice could be defined as one long struggle to prevent as in birth control contraception Nature taking its course but is laudable that are made to restore health those hovering on the brink of death.
In voluntary Euthanasia patient is decision maker But in Britain tradition It has been for the doctor to decide, Doctor orders rather than advice, this give rise to the frequent assertion but voluntary euthanasia will inevitably lead to involuntary euthanasia. We shall start by putting patient away because they are in intolerable pain & haven't long to live any way & we shall end up by putting them away because its Friday night & we want to get away for week-end. Action of this kind without the patients explicit request would continue to be outside law.
Netherland is only country whose medical profession & courts have openly recognized the widespread desire for the avaibility of voluntary euthanasia & by means of ease law developed agreed guidelines for its careful practice. Intentional termination of life of human being is contrary to medical profession & American medical association (AMA)
(AMA) maintains that people have a right to die with dignity so it is morally permissible for a doctor to allow someone to die if that person wants to & is suffering from an incurable illness causing pain that can't be sufficiently alleviated the AMA is unwilling to countenance active Euthanasia. Patient dying of an incurable diseases accompanied by unretivible pain wants to end his prolong miserable existence why doctor can stop treatment on request but cant provide lethal dose?
Answer is patient has right to refuse treatment No one can legally compel you to undergo treatment doctor can't force patient to take treatment forceably.
If one has right to refuse life prolonging treatment then consistency demands that one have th right to decide to end his or her life & to obtain help in doiong so.
Idea is right to refuse treatment implies right to voluntary euthanacasia Right to refuse treatment has been considered by legal writers as an right to privacy or right to bodily self determination. You have the right to decide what happens to your own body & right to
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