Arguments pour l'euthanasie (anglais)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly tells the story of Jean-Dominique Bobby, this French man that has a ''locked-in'' syndrome.
Unable to move, unable to speak, he doesn't feel anything.
The spectator really feels like he's trapped in the body of the man.
When the person is - desperate, - has no more hope of healing, - asks to end his sufferings euthanasia should definitely be available.
- frees the person from his unnatural sufferings, - gives some dignity to the patient and avoids medical abuses - would help the Health system.
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First,
1. Euthanasia free human beings from suffering
Some may say that today, with Modern medicine , pain relievers protect the patients to feel any pain.
BUT
Even if pain relievers are working well, patients can feel suffering from other sources - gradual loss of the control of the body - complete loss of autonomy - deformation of the body, mainly the face
When a human being is - prisoner of his body, - unable of doing anything, - asking to die, there is no good reason to keep holding him alive in this useless and unbearable suffering.
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Second,
2. Euthanasia avoids medical abuses and give patients some dignity
Medical abuses means that
Modern medicine keeps pushing away the limits of life expectancy.
This is good since this lifetime is a happy one, or at least one with a purpose, with a future. A real life.
Two scenarios where euthanasia should be available
Vegetable : A patient that - has an incurable disease, - who lives on with the help of a life-support machine, - who is never expected to regain