Moral Point of View

The Moral Point of View suggests that sometimes people have to set aside their own interests and act in
the best interests of others. Euthanasia or “easy death” is the termination of a very sick person's life in
order to relieve them of their suffering. This moral issue affects different kinds of point of view, there
are many issues related to euthanasia and each ethical theorist have different kinds of outlook. Even
laws have different perspective; in natural law ethics it condemns mercy killing except for principle
double effect. Kant’s ethics preserve human dignity and allows active voluntary euthanasia,
utilitarianism grant mercy killing since the greatest good is for the greatest number of people. There are
few universalize perspective that each person is capable of assuming. In euthanasia, people believed
that legalizing euthanasia leads to suicide contagion or euthanasia is a rejection of the importance and
value of human life.

If this issue is taken from a point of view a person who opposes euthanasia, then it is definitely not
moral to kill a person even if they are terminally ill because this person need a chance to live along and
see his life. The Christian view sees life as a gift offer from God, who ought not to be off ended by the
taking of that life. Similarly, the Islamic faith says that “it is the sole prerogative of God to bestow life
and to cause death.” The withholding or withdrawal of treatment is permitted when it is futile, as this is
seen as allowing the natural course of death. Opponents of euthanasia argue that there is a clear moral
distinction between actively terminating a patient’s life and withdrawing or withholding treatment
which ends a patient’s life. Letting a patient die from an incurable disease may be seen as allowing the
disease to be the natural cause of death without moral culpability.

However, if we we’re to view euthanasia as moral, given that some patients feel pain of such a horrible
nature and death is the only way to relieve it, if a person asks for death as a release from extreme pain
then how can it be immoral to help them? The person in favor of euthanasia argues that giving
everybody the right to have a good death through euthanasia is acceptable as a universal principle, and
that euthanasia is therefore morally acceptable. If an action promotes the best interests of everyone
and violates no other rights, then it is morally acceptable. Euthanasia does this, in at least some cases,
therefore euthanasia is morally acceptable in at least some cases.