And the rising threat health costs

The topic that I chose to write about is Euthanasia. I found that this is a very sensitive subject
and if different people were polled, you will most certainly find different viewpoints. Euthanasia
is a form of mercy killing. The question that we have to ask ourselves is who gives man the right t o decide or the wisdom to determine when it is time for someone to die, by performing a mercy killin g called euthanasia. In my reading the act of performing euthanasia was considered if a person was terminally ill or in a great deal of pain and suffering. One must ask themselves who gave them the right to decide when a person has enough pain and how much or how long is enough pain. When a person is terminally ill who gives you the right to decide that they have had enough suffering? The other question is, can anyone be capable and rational enough to make that decision? The decision to end someone's life is often totally based on the person performing the act's religious, moral and ethica l beliefs. Who says that their beliefs are right? Based on a persons belief this puts the patient'
s life and destiny in someone else's religious convictions that does not necessarily correspond with the patients. I don't believe that man has the right to decide when death should take place. Altho ugh some people in the medical profession may feel otherwise. It becomes a question of moral and re ligious beliefs. I personally feel that under no circumstances, will I take part or condone mercy k
illing. It is part of my religious beliefs and it is confirmed in the Bible in the Ten Commandments
, "Thou Shall Not Kill." It didn't say kill under prevailing circumstances. Whether you say that y
ou are helping or aiding a person, who is terminally ill or very old, if you kill them you have comm
itted murder, regardless of the circumstances. I feel that you did not give life and that you have
no right to take life. Euthanasia brings about another concern and that is what if you don't like th
e patient for any of your own personal prejudices. This un-friendly relationship can turn out to be
a vindictive situation. It also encompasses the issues of discrimination. and the rising threat of
health costs. Rising health costs should not be an issue when it comes to the preservation or the termination of life. America needs to take a closer look on health care and make it affordable for
everyone. I cannot see innocent terminally ill patients dying because of the threat of the ill runn
ing up a hospital bill. When you have family or friends left to handle the affairs of the sick pers
on, who is to say that the closest person next to the ill is not just looking at the hospital bills
for their own selfish motives. To look at the subject of discrimination will a person's color or re
ligious belief become a factor if someone lives or not? The other act of euthanasia is passive eutha nasia that does not assist in the ending of someone's life. Passive Euthanasia is the refraining of providing assisted life sustaining support, natural or artificial. I have more of a tolerance for t
his type of euthanasia because you are not directly responsible for the death of someone. If a per son should die of a heart attack or due to respiratory problems not giving them anything to keep the m alive is not the same as assisting them to die. I believe that their death is a result of natural
causes and divine intervention. It is a death that you had no parts in determining the fate of the
person. However, one can look at it differently and say there are medical alternatives that you cou ld use to extend the persons life, for example: by using a respirator or giving the person cardiac p ulmonary respiration or by leaving them on a respirator, tube feeding them. I believe that to refra
in from using any of the above medical life sustaining tactics does not directly put you in the posi
tion of having any direct responsibility for the person's death. I believe that by refraining from
using them the death of the person is an act of God's will. What happened to a person when there wa s no medical technology to sustain their life and who was responsible for their death at that time?