Health care has always been serving its purpose of doing whatever is best for the
patient. Every patient has the right to good health care quality here in Canada. Yet
patients do not have the right to choose their fate if it is suicidal, even though it is
obvious the patient has no means of recovery and is only suffering more. These types of
patients should be entitled to choose whether or not they want euthanasia. Allowing
euthanasia is ethical to the patients, affirmative with multiple religious beliefs and
beneficial to the patient and others.
Legalizing euthanasia is more respectable to the patients requesting it. Without
euthanasia as an alternative the sick and weary are only left with the option of
committing suicide, this can include jumping out of a window, a viscous stabbing and so
forth, all of which is extremely painful and traumatizing since the patient must force
death upon him/herself. Presently animals are being treated with more dignity than
humans when it comes to death, due to the fact that euthanasia is legal for them because it
is seen as cruelty to keep a suffering animal alive. As well all doctors must take a
Hippocratic Oath before getting their license to practice medicine, the oath itself
specifically says, "I will follow that method of treatment which according to my ability and
judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient and abstain from whatever is harmful or
mischievous " the purpose of euthanasia is too end harmful suffering and yet the majority of
doctors go against euthanasia. To keep euthanasia illegal as it is right now is more hurtful to the
Multiple religions support euthanasia and see it as a passage way into the next life. The
12th Pope states that ordinary means of care can be used to encourage recovery and
comfort but extraordinary means or care, s
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