It’s been six months since you, a once active and joyful being, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The effects of the disease are beginning to take its toll and you are left bedridden, with only a few weeks to live. Agonizing, excruciating, and tortuous don’t even began to describe the unbearable pain that you go through day in and day out. You are then left to question, what is life that’s been deprived of happiness and comfort and been replaced with cruel pain and sorrow? The answer; not a life worth living. Wanting to die with dignity, you request euthanasia, unfortunately it is not yet allowed, forcing you to die a painful and prolonged death. Its cases like these where you begin to wonder why euthanasia has only recently been legalized in Canada. As citizens of Canada, shouldn’t everyone have the right to a dignified death or should the terminally ill be left to suffer. And yet……… Is this fair, is this right, is this ethical, or are we depriving others of the right to a personal choice. In order to end the intolerable suffering…show more content… It also supports the financial well-being of a family of a terminally ill patient. Keeping a bedridden patient alive, with the use of machines, not only prolongs the life of suffering and pain but can also lead to great amounts of debt for the families of a dying loved one. Believe it or not, the average cost per day of keeping someone in the Intensive Care Unit alive is $2,000! Just think about it, keeping someone on life support, for a month, who doesn’t even want to be kept alive can cost $60,000; money that can easily be used for more practical reasons. Extending such lives would only lead to financial challenges, and futility, which is simply just prolonging the inevitable from happening. Instead, euthanasia allows a peaceful death in a medically safe environment, preventing loved ones from spending a fortune that would yield no
