ETHICS

1. Euthanasia, is it moral?

For this issue, my brother and my mother has the same point of
view about it. It is okay for them to conduct mercy killing however my
brother stated that it is depend upon how you view a moral. In medically
speaking, if a doctor founds out that the patient has no chance to survive
and it is only the life supporting machine and medicines that help the
patient to stay on its form, the unplugging of life support is not a form of
murder or killing. It is a manifestation that you already accepted that the
patient has no chance to be alive again. Especially when the patient is
already old, if it will survive, then it would be a burden to the family
because it has no function at all. Based on him, it could not give any more
support or assistance to the family because it was already too old to even
move. Maybe, accepting their lost through unplugging the machine would
be another embodiment of letting them to have their total rest. Because if
they will be alive, it would be also hard in their part because, they will
endure many complications that would make them have a hard to time to
live on Earth. On the other hand, according to him, if the financial support
is not enough anymore, it is also the time to end the life support.
Meanwhile, as they have said, it depends upon the situation, therefore, if
the patient is still young and there is a sign of surviving to the expense that
if this child become alive, there’s a greater possibility that it can sustain
itself and if the expenses are still bearable, why not to continue the life
support and have faith that the patient will live. They also said that human
lives have a limitations as the people that they will left, have too. If the
loved ones of the patient are already exhausted, emotionally and
physically and the sources are not enough, then it would safe to say that
unplugging the life support or euthanasia is not immoral. Nevertheless, my
father said that euthanasia is immoral. He says that the patient did not die
naturally and for him, unplugging the machine is some sort of killing. But in
my point of view, I agree from what my brother and mother’s perspectives.
If there is already no signs of surviving, it is not wrong to pull out the plug
of the life supporting machine. You are both exhausted and even your
pocket is already exhausted, what would be the essence of continuing the
patient’s live if you cannot able to talk with them, laugh with them, bond
with them due to its situation. Staying the patient on a life support with
zero percent of surviving, for example the patient is already brain dead, it
is like putting the patient in a wake minus the coffin and the flowers. You
are only preserving the body but there is no chance to make another
memory because there is no possibility that it will be alive again.
Moreover, unplugging the machine is not a sign of surrender but bravery.
Because it takes a lot of courage and time of decision-making for it to
happen.