Do humans have the right to end their lives if terminally ill? Euthanasia means to end your life in a painless way. Euthanasia can be classified in two ways: Voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary euthanasia is ending your life with your own consent and in the other hand involuntary euthanasia is ending your life without your consent, for example your family makes the decision since you are not able to make it yourself. Both voluntary and involuntary euthanasia can be passive or active. In passive euthanasia there’s no need of antibiotics that helps the person to continue living and in active euthanasia the use of lethal substances is needed, in other words, forces to kills the person. Euthanasia is not morally acceptable in the utilitarianism. The Kantian Ethics says that the person should make their own decision about the moral laws that he o she will follow. But, in case that the person can’t make the decision of the laws he oe she will follow it’s impossible for the Katian Ethics to support this. It’s the patient that need to make the decision not his family or friends, in this case this problem will be under the Divine Command Theory or Utilitarianism which is about the morality to something outside our own decision making ability, becasue the Katian Ethics is about our own autonomy “autonomy of the will”. So in conclusion Euthanasia can’t be applied perfectly to these two theories, because if the sick loved one were able to make a decision for them, egoism will be perfectly attached to this, because it is focusing only on the persons own interest not thinking in the other.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
It's Ok to end one's life if ill?(EUTHANASIA)
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