Euthanasia

How would you want to live life in such pain that you cannot move or do anything all day? You know that the rest of your will be spent in a hospital bed, lying there with machines beeping all around you and IV needles in your arms to keep you alive. Is this the type of life a person wants to live. This description of life is the truth for many people, people like Chantal Sebire and Terry Schiavo. These people suffer from such horrible disease that there is no cure in sight and no chance of recovery. They are being kept and alive and being forced to suffer through this pain because of laws prohibiting doctors to legally participate in euthanasia and assisted suicide. People have such a view in their head that death is such a bad thing, these people usually don't look at how much the people are suffering. They fight that it is against their right to live to be killed but should not if you have a right to live, you should also be able to have a right to die?

Chantal Sebire is in the media now because of her outcry to be allowed to die but being reject by the legislation. Chantal suffers from a malignant tumor in her nasal cavity, called esthesioneuro-blastoma. She is a 52 year old school teacher in France. This all began in 2000 when she noticed that she lost her sense of taste and smell. Then in 2002 she was diagnosed with the disease. By 2007 the tumor got so big that she went blind and it began to protrude through he eye sockets. It is unbelievable that the legislature in France has let her suffer through this painful and disfiguring disease. This is a very rare disease with no cure and the legislation will not allow her to end her pain and suffering. She has said that, "An animal would not be allowed to endure what I have to endure." Which is completely true, if an animal went through this much suffering they would have put it to sleep in a heartbeat. But since Chantal is a human, people feel she has to be kept alive. This is doing her no good. I believe if she wants to end her suffering allow her to. It is not the governments job to say who can live or die it should be the persons decision. Sebire also said, “I now know how to get my hands on what I need and if I don’t get it in France, I will get it elsewhere.” I feel that Chantal Sebire has made up how she is going to handle the situation and will end her suffering and has shed light on the euthanasia laws around the world. The moral values we have about euthanasia have to be looked at and changed to make this world and happy and peaceful for everyone.

Correspondents in France. (2008) Chantal Sebire's euthanasia plea rejected. Retrieved April 10, 2008, from
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23394290-401,00.html
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