ght be true, now in present time I feel that if euthanasia takes place it is not meant to harm the patient, it is meant to relieve their pain.Another proponent of euthanasia is the option of Hospice Care. The main goal of Hospice Care is to alleviate the pain that a patient is feeling and to make them live well while dying. Hospice Care refuses the burdens of aggressive life sustaining treatment. “Today over seventeen hundred hospice care programs in the United States enable thousands of people to receive excellent home care during their last months” (McCuen 161).Should a patient have the right to end his or her life? “Every patient has the right to judge his suffering as unbearable and the right to ask his/her doctor for euthanasia”, said Dr. Peter Admiraal at the eighth Biennial World Conference or right to die societies. “Our laws must be changed so that any patient in consultation with family, close friends and consulting doctors may voluntarily choose to terminate his/her life humanly when there is no rational expectations for anything but never ending misery” (McCuen 153). They are trying to say that the patient him/herself should have the authority over their life to choose when to die. They feel that the courts should not have this authority. In the Supreme Court case of Nancy Cruzan, the debate was whether or not they should continue keeping her alive as a vegetable. Nancy Cruzan was in a terrible car accident, which left her in a comatose state. When her family wanted to have Nancy’s feeding tubes removed, the Missouri Supreme Court would not authorize this. Justice Rehnquist acknowledges that, A competent person has a constitutionally protectedRight to refuse life saving nutrition and hydration.However, in the case of an incompetent person, it isNot unconstitutional for Missouri to insist that nutritionAnd hydration can be terminated only if there is “clearAnd convincing evidenc...
