Should Euthanasia be legal in NZ - Persuasive writing

Should Euthanasia be Legal in NZ?

Should euthanasia be allowed to be used on humans? If I had a severe medical condition

with unbearable symptoms, I wouldn't want to be kept alive against my own will. People with

incurable conditions should be able to die in dignity, not in pain, they should not be kept suffering

against their own will, they should be able to choose when they die. 

Sadly there are many people who are diagnosed with incurable conditions such as leukaemia,

Alzheimer's, Aids and others. Some people live their lives suffering until they eventually die from

their illness. Euthanasia would stop these people from suffering from unbearable symptoms and pain.

In New Zealand a survey in 2014-2015 of 15,822 people, 66 per cent supported euthanasia as a legal

means of ending the lives of people with painful, incurable diseases. We should be able to die without

suffering.

Euthanasia should, of course, be only an option to people who are suffering from incurable illnesses.

Euthanasia would give people the option to end their suffering. When healing is no longer possible,

and the patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician’s role should shift from healing

to relieving suffering in the patient’s wishes. It must be a choice for both patient and physician to go on

with Euthanasia. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, The Netherlands,

Switzerland, and in six US states (California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Vermont and Washington

State). I believe that New Zealand should be one of these countries. 

We are able to make our own choices of what we do in life, from who we marry to what kind of work

we do. I think when it comes to the end of one’s life, whether you have an incurable condition or whether

you’re elderly, you should be able to choose what happens to you. We should be able to make our own

decisions for our own bodies. Around the work, 0.2% to 4.6% of all deaths are reported as euthanasia

or physician-assisted suicide where they are legal.

People should be able to make their own decisions even if it means making a decision to die. For those who are suffering from painful symptoms should not be kept alive against their will. Euthanasia is legal in six countries, should New Zealand be one of them?