Topic Proposal #2

Topic: Should voluntary euthanasia be a legal choice patients can make?

1st argument - Voluntary euthanasia should be legal.

• Mentally competent patients with an incurable disease and/or unbearable suffering should be able to decide the manner and timing of their death.

2nd argument - Voluntary euthanasia should not be legal.

• Goes against the purpose of a physician's job.
• The will to live fluctuates, but euthanasia is an irreversible decision.
• Patients may decide euthanasia to prevent others seeing them as a burden.
• Regulation may not be enforced and people might abuse this choice.
• Moral disintegration of society -> society might begin to see euthanasia as a cheaper and preferable option to cure a problem.

3rd argument - Voluntary euthanasia should and should not be legal. (from a theological stand point)

• The different view points on euthanasia and their reasons behind them.
• May cover 5 or 6 religions.