Euthanasia - should it be legalized in malaysia?

hello one and all

sorry for the lack of updates for the pass few days. i was busy hehe =P. anyways my G11 classmates would recognize the title of this wonderful blogpost. for those of you who don't know the title of my post for today is the same as my euthanasia research project . i had to give a short presentation on it on wednesday . here is my speech ---

A very good morning to my esl lecturer mrs banu and my fellow friends

Today i would like to present a short presentation on euthanasia. My focus question for today would be ' Should Euthanasia Be Legalized In Malaysia? '

Firstly, i bet all of you are wondering what on earth is euthanasia.Well for those of you who don't know euthanasia is defined as the intentional termination of life by another through the explicit request of the person who whiches to die.

Now as you all know euthanasia as been legalized in severall parts of the world such as Oregon, US and in the Netherlands. However, now these countries are now facing the negative side effects of legalizng euthanasia. For example in Oregon, the oregonians are now facing a decrease in the standards of health care. A report card issued by the Last Acts Organization proves my point as the report card stated clearly that Oregon has received a 'D' grade for hospice and an 'E' grade for pallilative care programs. Another drawback that the oregonians are facing is that there is now an increase in medical cost. The Oregon Health Plan that normally subsidies for patients who can't afford treatment recently cut off 10000 poor people from the plan in 2003. In 2004 and the first half of the year an additional 75000 people were cut from the plan yet again.

The dutch are facing a different situation. Firstly, they are facing an inhibition in medical advancement. This is due to the fact that euthanasia has become a norm. So doctors normally just euthanize patients especially when they face any puzzling medical problems.Another negative side effects that the Dutch now face is that many of their patients are being euthanized without consent. A study released by the Dutch government showed that 9.1% of the deaths that occur in the Netherlands annuallyis due to euthanaisa. In other words this means that approximately 1040 people which means 3 people per day are euthanized. The similar results were produced 5 years later.

Now let us look at the advantages of euthanasia. Firstly, euthanaisa helps reduce the pain suffered by patients. As patients normally suffer the worst kind of pains during the last few months of their life. They will exprience both physical and physiological pain. Euthanasia can prevent all of this from happening. Another advantage of euthanasia is that the patients loved ones will suffer emotional pains as sometimes they too suffer as much or even more pain than the patient themselves as they have stressed for a long period of time.

However, euthanasia has some disadvantages. One of them is that it violates the hippocratic oath. When a physicians takes the oath, he or she is actually promising or swearing to never ever prescribe a deadly drug to any patient no matter what the circumstances are. So by legalizing euthanasia we are actually allowing physicians to help their patients commit suicide. This in turn violates the hipprocratic oath and weakens the doctor-patient trust. Secondly, euthanasia gives patients and doctors a chance to give up on recovery a little bit too early. As some patients may decide to give up on treatment early. This gives absolutely no chance of recovery as for all you know the doctor might have made a mistake in the diagnosis. In the netherlands this is true as many dutch patients actually decline any type of treatments when they know their about to die.

In conclusion, euthanasia should never ever be legalized in Malaysia because it has shown to have negative side effects in places where it has already been legalized. Other then that it will also be abused as doctors will be given the power to decide who gets to go on the road to recovery and who goes onto the road of the afterllife. Thank you

thats my speech until next time ciao =P