Florida should legalize euthanasia and I offer the following plan. The way
Florida would legalize euthanasia should be by setting up a set of professional doctors
who could examine all cases in which a person or an ill patients family request
euthanasia due to extreme pain or an incurable disease. The doctors could examine these
people and if they find there is no way other than the use of machines 24-hours a day to
keep these people alive they will allow the doctor of the patient to assist in suicide or
in better terms freeing an immense pain and agony. The benefits from legalizing
euthanasia in Florida would be the health care spent to keep many of the people who live
on machines from terminally or incurable diseases would be saved, many families would not
have to watch there family member die slowly, and many stories like Sue Rodriguez's would
never be.
In the first place, health care on people with incurable or deadly
diseases cannot be paid by many people because of no medical insurance according to
Euthanasia questions by the IAETF. The government jumps in and pays for the treatment and
care. This could be replaced in incurable or agonizing pain situations with the better
and cheaper treatment of death.
Next, not all family life is harmonious, and underlying pathology can
often be exacerbated by the stresses of a family member's terminal illness bring says an
article in Law Medicine & Health Care of 1992. If euthanasia is legalized the family
members of a patient could sleep peacefully knowing that they have been "mercied" and
died easily and with little pain instead of being kept alive by a machine or dying slowly
and painfully from an incurable disease.
Finally, let me tell you a true story from Vess Fast Access TO
Information On Euthanasia, about a 31-year old mother named Sue Rodriguez. Sue Rodriguez
was dying slowly of the incurable Lou Gehrig's disease. She lived several years with the
knowledge that the disease would one by one waste away her muscles until the point while
still conscious the lack of muscles would choke her to death. She begged the courts to
allow her and her doctor to choose the moment of her death instead of the inspicable pain
of being choked to death. The court refused to mercy her and she lived in terror every
day. Every morning she would wake up wondering if this is the day she would be choked to
death maybe while her children watch. In February 1994, Sue Rodriguez died. Finally she
may rest in peace after several years of pain. If euthanasia was legalized it could have
saved her the nightmare during those months and years before her death, given her the
confidence to carry on - with the reassurance that when it got too bad she could rely on
a compassionate doctor to follow her wishes at the end.
To recap, Florida should legalize euthanasia and I offer this
plan. A set of doctors to examine each euthanasia case is a way to legalize euthanasia
with many safe guards for people who do not have to die. The benefits of the legalization
of Euthanasia in Florida would be the amount of money saved that is spent on keeping
incurable patients alive, families of victims could live peacefully and not go under much
stress knowing the victim died peacefully and not painfully, and how stories like the one
of the 31-year old mother Sue Rodriguez and how she woke up every day wondering if she
would choke to death in front of her children and family because the courts would not
allow her and her doctor to choose the time of death.
To conclude, I ask you to vote affirmatively on if Florida should
legalize euthanasia.
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