r lives or to have others to do it for them by withdrawing life-sustaining apparatus, they play God. They usurp the divine function, and interfere with the divine plan. I agree with the fact that God is the one who should take our lives, but I also have to believe that God would not want us to suffer. When people are in agonizing pain from a terminal illness they not only feel a loss of dignity; they feel a sense of comfort with the thought of ending that suffering, even if it means death. A patient might choose euthanasia because, “he or she might choose to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the wicked and to suffer abuses unbecoming his/her noble birth” (Donnelly 40). This idea is trying to tell us that a person feels that they would rather die with dignity than to die suffering. I also found an example of this concept in the book Doctor Assisted Suicide and the Euthanasia Movement,Lydia had been fighting cancer on and off forTen years. Lydia fought bravely to keep living Through various complex treatments and theirAftermath. Finally the doctors told her that thereWas nothing more they could do and that sheShould expect death soon. Lydia wanted to die With dignity and she saw no dignity in cornice drugSedation. Since the doctors would not help and herHusband did not actually want to be the one to killHis wife, Lydia died naturally seven days later, With no dignity (PP 151-152).Some people choose to end their suffering because they do not want to be seen in such misery.I feel that when a patient is in such a state that holds for them only pain and suffering, the families of the patients sometimes want to keep their loved one alive for purely selfish reasons. The families, perhaps without even realizing it, might want to only keep their suffering parent, grandparent, sibling, friend or other relative around just so they would not have to adjust to life without their loved one. They might not realize that the per...
