Euthanasia creates a crucial ethical, moral and political controversy

nowadays. Since it goes against the norms of traditional medicine, people

appear to either strictly disallow it due to religious, behavioural and social
reasons, or firmly advocate mercy killing. A major question to be asked
here: is it right to end a life full of pain and agony of a person who is
suffering from a serious incurable disease? Despite the fact that one of
the main human rights is the right to live, it would seem that humans have
the right to die as well.

Euthanasia antagonists believe that ending a suffering person’s lifeis

a crime that both law and constitution should forbid even if the sufferer
was dying. Richard Doerflinger from the center of Ethics and Culture in
the University of Notre Dame said in 2017: “Campaigning to end certain
people’s lives doesn’t end the suffering, it passes on the suffering to other
similar people who now have the fear they are the next people in line to
be seen as having worthless lives”. However, adherents consider that the
right to die should be a matter of personal choice.

Partisans of mercy killing believe that assisted suicide eliminates the

fear of dying miserably, and of being a burden on others in the patient’s
mind. One fact is that human beings have the right to refuse a care, which
is also defined as passive euthanasia. Another fact is that quietus or as
sufferers call “happy release” encourages the organ transplantation. It
gives the right to die for the patient with one foot in the grave, and the
right to live for the organ needy ones. Above all, forcing a moribund
patient to stay alive and suffer is considered a crime in many countries.
Humanitarians confirm that keeping people with severe medical
conditions causing unbearable symptoms is torture for them. As Michael
Irwin from SOARS stated in 2013: “I wouldn’t want to be unnecessarily
kept alive against my own will”.

In a nutshell death with dignity is becoming a global conversation.

While opponents of mercy killing are fighting to forbid this phenomenon,
people stay in an irremediable chronic pain until they eventually perish.