The medical decision

Walking through the silent aisle of the hospitals you hear a person suffering while is going to a surgery room, where he entrust his life to a total stranger that are usually called doctors, whose objective is to save the life of that person, by using any existent method. These doctors are in charge of keeping the person biological alive, with the help of modern technology such as the medical machines while the patient frequently suffers, but these upsurges a ethic problem which is called Euthanasia that is when the doctor and the family decides to end with the patient life in a painless way.

To begin this discussion it is necessary to define the mayor consequence of an euthanasian action, that is the death; for some doctors death meant the termination of breathing. But for several physicians death is defined as a total stoppage of the circulation of blood. This definition served well until recent technology made it possible to sustain respiration and heartbeat indefinitely, even when there is no brain activity. So there is total death when in a living being don’t function the lungs, heart and brain.

Having already stated a definition of death, now we can establish some reasons why euthanasia must be made, and basically the most important is that each individual have the right to decide about their own lives and deaths, because denying a terminally ill patient the right to die with dignity is unfair and cruel, given that the only one that can state the suffering resistance point, is the patient, and because also nobody is forced to stay alive.

On the other hand there are some arguments against this issue, like the fact that the human considers himself a God and judge who can live and who can’t. In addition, no one can ensure that the decision of dying was totally voluntary, that’s why it can probably lead to abuses. Finally there is always the possibility of mistaken diagnosis, a new cure, or spontaneous remission.

In conclusion, like the right of live has to be respect, there most be a right of dying (that also must be respected) whenever the person wanted to, because no one is oblige to live, but there always be a hope that in the future there will be a cure for that illness, or natural recovery, or maybe a erroneous diagnosis, so the dicision of another life cant be in human hands.