TOEFL® essay: Euthanasia, or mercy killing, has been in the news more and more...

[Kamikazi]

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Topic: Euthanasia, or mercy killing, has been in the news more and more recently. Many people are strongly against such a practice, but there is a growing demand to have a legalized. How far do you agree with the Euthanasia?

Making decisions related to life and death is never an easy issue, especially when it comes to taking one ‘s life. As a matter of fact, every life are also precious and deserved being respectful. However, from my point of view, the interfere of doctors is necessary for patients catching incurable diseases to end up their wretched life.

It is undeniable fact that the patients have no chance of recovery. They living with life-support machines and would never lead a normal life. They may need a machine to breath and digest foods via a tube. Needless to say, the life they suffer are more dead than alive and will never get better. For example, in 1975, Karen Quinlan became unconscious after she abused drug and drank alcohol too much. She was kept alive by machines. However, after a long time, her parents knew that Karen ‘s brain would be never normal again. Thus, they advocated the court to allow their daughter to die. The judge agreed, Karen was able to breathing by herself and fell in a peaceful sleep two months later.

Obviously, the responsibilities of doctors are treating diseases, help patients find the way to prolong their life. Nevertheless, this is only true when patients have a healthy and happy life, not a painful and grieved one. Opponents of Euthanasia argue that it is cruel to legalize this law, but in my view, it is much more cruel to let patients suffer the agony day by day and living in the hopelessness with a predicted death. Also, the family of the patients also experience the sorrow for a long time when seeing their close relative struggle with the disease and more and more fragile. Moreover, the expenses for medical treatment are also a serious problem, especially for poor families when the patients must living on the sick-bed three or four years before leaving forever.

In a nutshell, the treatments are unworthy, it just extends the pains of both patients and their families. Therefore, I do believe that the government should give the patient the right to die.

[Darkangel12891]

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