Nevertheless, I will suggest that might not be a good reason. Because in order to protect patients’ human rights, it is better to relieve a patient from their pain and suffering by performing euthanasia which will do more good than harm. In the article “Euthanasia: 10 myths,” the author Richard DW Hain demonstrates that make euthanasia legal is equal to make it legal to kill people. Richard points out that “the ethical justification for euthanasia, on the other hand, comes from a broadly utilitarian idea that there is a life that can be taken by, or at the request of, those who judge it to be in some way not worth living”(799). He does not understand the purpose of euthanasia correctly. Patients desire mercy killing because they cannot face the severe suffering anymore. But in Richard’s article, he just considers if euthanasia is permissible, physicians will have rights to kill patients, and that means those patients are not worth living because their lives can be taken by physicians. Quite the opposite, patients require euthanasia because they want to die with dignity and they have rights to make the decision about when and how they should die. That’s why people called euthanasia “physician-assisted dying”, if euthanasia is equal to kill people, we should name euthanasia “physician-murdered dying”. In the article “The ethics of euthanasia,” Nargus …show more content…
According to the article “Care, Compassion, Respect, ” James Downar indicates that 84% Canadians believe a physician should assist patients who suffering from an incurable disease to end their lives. There are two famous cases in the field of challenging physician-assisted dying permissible in Canada. Gloria Taylor, a British Columbia woman who was diagnosed in 2009 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a specific disorder that involves the death of neurons in which patients first lose the ability to use their hands and feet, then the ability to walk, speak and, eventually, breathe. She is an essential person whose case has prompted B.C. Supreme Court to approve euthanasia. Gloria was the lead plaintiff in the case of advocate Canada's assisted-dying law and the only Canadian to win the right to get a doctor's help to die in 2011. Michael Friscolanti’s article “Gloria Jean Taylor” illustrates that Gloria wants to avoid an “ugly death”. She said, "I live in apprehension that my death will be slow, difficult, unpleasant, painful, undignified and inconsistent with the values and principles I have tried to live by”(106). Another human rights protector, Kay carter, who has an incurable disease, arguing that she has the right to ask her physician to terminate her life. But with assisted suicide still a crime in Canada, she finally travelled to Switzerland, where physician-assisted dying is