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The word euthanasia comes from the Greek language, and it means "good death". In English the word refers to purposely ending a person's life in order to stop the unbearable pain caused by an illness. The patients who are euthanized are terminally ill, meaning that they have no chance of recovery.
When a person is euthanized someone such as a doctor helps them die by making available to them some kind of lethal drug or deadly gas. It's called "assisted suicide". In those cases, the doctor doesn't actually administer the drug or gas but only provides it for the patient's use. When the patient is ready to die, he or she administers it and dies alone.
One doctor in the USA, Dr. Jack Kavorkian, has become well-known for his assisted suicides. Since helping people die is against the law in his state, the doctor was arrested and tried in court several times. But every time he was brought into court the jury acquitted him. The jury always sided with him, seeing him as providing a service of kindness rather than as committing a crime.
Most people sympathize with a person who wants to end the pain and suffering, but for several reasons most governments are reluctant to make euthanasia legal. As of 2002 doctor-assisted suicide was legal only in the Netherlands, Switzerland, the US state of Oregon, and in Australia's Northern Territory.
If asked, most people will say that people who are suffering from incurable diseases would be better off if they died. But if they are asked if they support doctor-assisted suicide, most of them will say no. The reasons they usually give are:
◆ Difficulty in determining who is terminally ill. Some people who are expected to die later get well. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
◆ Religious beliefs. "God gives life, so only God should take it away."
◆ It could lead to "suicide on demand". People who are unhappy with their lives might someday be able to get help in dying whenever they want to. Considering all the depressed people there are in the world, it could turn into an epidemic of suicides.
◆ Temporary period of depression. The person who suicides to die could just be going through a temporary period depression but change his or her mind later.
Euthanasia is a tough issue for most people. On the one hand they think it should be allowed, but on the other, they think it shouldn't be allowed.
Q1) Do you know any specific case related to euthanasia? What do you think about those cases? (For example, if one of the family member is in a coma. It costs a huge amount of money to keep him/her alive, and you are running our of money. Let's think about the reactions with it.)
Q2) What do you think of doctors who help patients die? Do you think they are just muderers or they are providing a humanistic help?
Q3) Euthanasia is illegal in Korea, same as many other countries. But doctor-assisted suicide is performed secretly in many cases. Do you think euthanasia should be legal? Between the right of choice for patient who has a terminal illness and the value of human being's life, which do you think is more important?
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When a person is euthanized someone such as a doctor helps them die by making available to them some kind of lethal drug or deadly gas. It's called "assisted suicide". In those cases, the doctor doesn't actually administer the drug or gas but only provides it for the patient's use. When the patient is ready to die, he or she administers it and dies alone.
One doctor in the USA, Dr. Jack Kavorkian, has become well-known for his assisted suicides. Since helping people die is against the law in his state, the doctor was arrested and tried in court several times. But every time he was brought into court the jury acquitted him. The jury always sided with him, seeing him as providing a service of kindness rather than as committing a crime.
Most people sympathize with a person who wants to end the pain and suffering, but for several reasons most governments are reluctant to make euthanasia legal. As of 2002 doctor-assisted suicide was legal only in the Netherlands, Switzerland, the US state of Oregon, and in Australia's Northern Territory.
If asked, most people will say that people who are suffering from incurable diseases would be better off if they died. But if they are asked if they support doctor-assisted suicide, most of them will say no. The reasons they usually give are:
◆ Difficulty in determining who is terminally ill. Some people who are expected to die later get well. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
◆ Religious beliefs. "God gives life, so only God should take it away."
◆ It could lead to "suicide on demand". People who are unhappy with their lives might someday be able to get help in dying whenever they want to. Considering all the depressed people there are in the world, it could turn into an epidemic of suicides.
◆ Temporary period of depression. The person who suicides to die could just be going through a temporary period depression but change his or her mind later.
Euthanasia is a tough issue for most people. On the one hand they think it should be allowed, but on the other, they think it shouldn't be allowed.
Q1) Do you know any specific case related to euthanasia? What do you think about those cases? (For example, if one of the family member is in a coma. It costs a huge amount of money to keep him/her alive, and you are running our of money. Let's think about the reactions with it.)
Q2) What do you think of doctors who help patients die? Do you think they are just muderers or they are providing a humanistic help?
Q3) Euthanasia is illegal in Korea, same as many other countries. But doctor-assisted suicide is performed secretly in many cases. Do you think euthanasia should be legal? Between the right of choice for patient who has a terminal illness and the value of human being's life, which do you think is more important?
이 글은「대학연합영어토론동아리」www.pioneerclub.com에서 제공하는 영어토론 정보입니다.
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