where a patient may be encouraged or pressured into turning to euthanasia in order to spare their family from financial and emotional difficulties. The third is "surrogate" euthanasia. This "might permit euthanizing incompetent patients on the basis of 'substituted judgement' or nebulous tests of 'burdens and benefits'." Finally there is the risk of "discriminatory" euthanasia. This is the belief that "in a society in which discrimination is common and many citizens do not have access even to basic health care, the legalization of euthanasia would create another powerful tool with which to discriminate against groups, whose 'consent' is already susceptible to coercion and whose rights are already in jeopardy." The risks that would be created with euthanasia are inevitable. People who are pro-euthanasia may argue that "procedural safeguards" would reduce these risks, but that they would not eliminate them entirely. Euthanasia would not only be risky, but also morally and ethically wrong. It would interfere with a persons fate and force doctors to go against their oath in which they pledge "to do no harm" to their patients. "Although some people may be sad and physically compromised during their last months and years, these days also can be an opportunity to appreciate life's last chapter and to reach out again to loved ones" (Carter,389). Euthanasia doesn't allow for closure on one's life to occur. Euthanasia also leaves no room for the hope and possible blessing of a miracle to happen....
