Question

1. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are practiced in few States in the US. What are your thoughts about this practice?

Answer 1

Euthanasia Mercy killing:

The physician assisted suicide or Mercy killing generally called as Euthanasia. In many developed countries like Mercy killing Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands it is legal. In the USA states like Washington, Oregon, and Vermont have legalized mercy killing process. Euthanasia was mainly classified into Voluntary (conducted with consent) and involuntary (conducted without consent).

Physician-assisted suicide is not the same as euthanasia. In Euthanasia, physician would directly give the final medication to end the patient's life. In Physician-assisted suicide, the physician provides the prescription for the death and patient administers it on his / her own. Here, physician does not deliver the medication.

My thoughts about this Euthanasia practice:

I am thinking that when the person is having terminal illness so the person will go into the depression at that time euthanasia law is useful.

The assisted sucide is we will encourage but mostly when the person is in the chronic disease condition and the patient think that he don't want to give trouble to his family at that time the physician assisted sucide is must be done under the strict rules.

As a nurse these two practices are follow under loss and with patient concernt and family members opinion and carefull controlled circumstances.

Ex: if we are going against through this law I am thinking that we have to give account for the family as well as the court.