Should Eutanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide be legal?

Let´s imagine that you are diagnosed with a terminal disease. This disease is incurable, and your body will have to experience all the ups and downs of it until you cannot deal with it anymore. Would you rather go through all of it, or be assisted to a dignified death? That’s why Euthanasia is being discussed nowadays and it’s becoming a really loud topic in the science and legal field. From my perspective, physician-assisted suicide should be legalized for all communities.

Although many other assure that a physician’s ethic is to cure their patients, due to their Hippocratic Oath of ‘Do no harm to the patient’, I think that making them go through a long, discomforting and painful road to their inevitable death isn’t exactly a way of making them ‘no harm’. As MD Robert Olvera says ‘To prolong a death in some cases is not helpful, it can be counterproductive.’ because this will affect them in all ways possible, from their own health, to their monetary state to deal with their disease, and how their pain will affect their loved ones.

Likewise, I think that by approving legally the right of having a physician-assisted suicide we’re not obligating people to have euthanasia, the same way that people are not obligated to donate their organs to others, or even donate their body to science. All of those are rights that we as people are free to choose or not to choose, and that goes to each individual and what situation are going through, and if they feel that their time is enough, or don’t feel strong enough to continue with a battle that they don’t want to.

Therefore, I think that Euthanasia should be a right for all people, for both parts. Either the patients that needs it, and the doctor choosing to help these people or not to. We cannot obligate people to choose things that they don’t want to do, so obligating people to live when they don’t feel strong enough to, is harming the patients, physically, mentally and emotionally.