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ESSAY SAMPLE ON "ANALYSIS OF SCARED TO DEATH OF DYING, ARTICLE BY HERBERT HENDIN" |
The background for this work is that the existing conflict over legalizing assisted
suicides and euthanasia could bring our values down and society apart. The problem is
not legalizing or opposing to it, the real problem is to find a way to care for the
terminally ill. We have the responsibility to help the terminally ill die in a decent
way not killing them. If we don't have a policy or rule against this we are permitting
doctors, like Jack Kevorkian, to become famous for killing people. The claim for this
work is that assisted suicides and euthanasia should be illegal.
The Oregon Law would allow people to die quicker and without dignity. We can see that
this is true in the story of the 30 year-old man that has leukemia. He had a 25 percent
chance of survival if he was medically treated; if not he was given a few months to live.
When told this, the man wanted to suicide. At first he was scared but after talking
with the doctor he decided to take medical treatment and be closer to his family in his
final days. If this had happened under the Oregon Law, he would have asked a doctor to
assist him in suicide and the doctor would have assisted him without any problem since he
had no mental illness.
Doctors can cause or hastened death without the patient's request. This can be seen in
the Netherlands were a 30 year-old man who was H.I.V.-positive, but had no symptoms and
may not develop them for years, was helped to die. Probably the doctors didn't explain
that even if he had a terminal disease he could enjoy the rest of his life with his
family and friend that were about to lose him.
Doctors aren't trained to do this in medical school and the public doesn't know better.
This is because doctors aren' t trained properly in the relief of pain and discomfort in
terminally ill patients. And time should be devoted in medical schools to explain to the
future doctors that there are going to be some patients that they are not going to be
able to save but must address their needs. Also the public hasn't been properly educated
about the choices they have at the end of their life.
The purpose of this work is to create a national commission that would study the care of
the terminally ill giving treatment to the dying patients. Both people who support and
oppose euthanasia will be able to participate having in mind that the real problem is the
care for the terminally ill. This will help the people to make up their minds and arrive
at a consensus.
This work was written for a neutral but mature audience. This work was printed in the
New York Times and deals with an important issue that some people may not understand.
The language of the work is not confusing. The issue seen in the argument is complicated
and may not be suitable for everybody. People must understand the problem before judging
on it.
This work has a proposal argument since it talks about making a commission to deal with
the legalization problem of euthanasia and assisted suicide. This commission would be in
charge of finding solutions for the problem of the care of terminally ill patients and
not the legalization of assisted suicides or euthanasia. This commission would help
people understand the problem the legalization of euthanasia would bring to our nation.
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