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Article: "Anti-Euthanasia Arguments" BBC - Author: Unknown…
Article: "Anti-Euthanasia Arguments" BBC - Author: Unknown
Ethical Arguments
By accepting euthanasia, people are accepting that some lives are worth less than others
Euthanasia might not be in a person's best interests
Euthanasia affects other people's rights, not just those of the patient
Voluntary euthanasia will lead to the involuntary killing of people who are seen as undesirable
A 1998 study found that doctors who are cost-conscious and 'practice resource-conserving medicine' are significantly more likely to write a lethal prescription for terminally-ill patients [Arch. Intern. Med., 5/11/98, p. 974]
Practical Arguments
Proper palliative care makes euthanasia unnecessary
There's no way of properly regulating euthanasia
Allowing euthanasia will lead to less good care for the terminally ill
Allowing euthanasia undermines the committment of doctors and nurses to saving lives
Euthanasia may become a cost-effective way to treat the terminally ill
Will discourage further research into cures and medicines to prevent death
Euthanasia undermines the motivation to provide good care for the dying, and good pain relief
Euthanasia gives too much power to doctors
Euthanasia exposes vulnerable people to pressure to end their lives
Moral pressure on elderly relatives by selfish families
Moral pressure to free up medical resources
Patients who are abandoned by their families may feel euthanasia is the only solution
Religious/Historical Arguments
Euthanasia is against the word and will of God
Euthanasia weakens society's respect for the sanctity of life
Suffering may have value
Down through the centuries and generations it has been seen that in suffering there is concealed a particular power that draws a person interiorly close to Christ, a special grace.
Pope John Paul II: Salvifici Doloris, 1984