Voluntary Active Euthanasia Essay Example

we can do certain things that can ensure our freedom or take it away. One of Singers best counter-arguments is: It will be said that we do not allow people to sell themselves into slavery. If, in a free society, people are not allowed to give up their freedom, why should they be able to give up their lives, which of course also ends their freedom. # With this being said, if one were to go out tomorrow and murder another human being, they would be convicted and punished with serving jail time or with capital punishment. Both of these punishments automatically ive up ones freedom with one returning it and the other not.

Who is to say that capital punishment and euthanasia both do not take away freedom, with one being voluntary and the other not. Current society believes that killing is bad. If we say that killing a human being is okay then what kind of message will we be sending? In another argument Singer states: …killing can lead to fear and insecurity in those who learn of the risk to their own lives, is transformed into a reason in favor of permitting killing, when people are killed only on their request.For then killing poses no threat. # Killing someone without their consent is completely unlike killing someone with their consent.

Walking down the street and believing that murdering someone is morally permissible when it is not, is incorrect. Voluntary Active Euthanasia is ending a life filled with pain and suffering. Living a life full of pain and suffer is not a life worth living. Legalizing euthanasia will not send out the message

that killing will be okay, instead it is insisting that it is ones choice to do with their life as they please.The premises of Peter Singer’s paper is, “when killing is, and is not, wrong.

” He is stating the circumstances under which killing is and is not morally permissible. Singers conclusion is stated in the paragraph at the end, it sums up all of the points he made throughout his paper. He uses the evidence stated throughout his paper to prove that legalizing euthanasia does not necessarily lead to the slippery slope. “Hence it seems that, on utilitarian grounds, the legalization of voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide would be a desirable form,” (Singer 541).

Singer implies that Voluntary Active Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is an acceptable way to end life. It is a more enticing way to go then suicide. Suicide is looked down upon when euthanasia is not. Peter Singers Argument is Deductively invalid.

Throughout the argument Singer “Fulfils Prophesies,”# by saying I can think. Singer is telling himself that he can only think of one reason so therefore he only lets himself think of one reason. Killing another human being is wrong. Whether the one being euthanized is by voluntary consent or not. As human beings, who are we to play “God” and decide who lives and who dies?If we as human beings were meant to decide who lives and who dies and when or where they die then, we would have that decision as a natural (born with it) ability.

Killing any human being is not morally permissible under any circumstances. I do agree with the arguments conclusion. Seeing the statistics of

where voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is legal, gives proof that it does not always lead to the slippery slope. An individual has the right to decide what they want to do with their life, they are allowed to decide where to live, their career and many other life changing decisions.So why shouldn’t one be able to decide whether they want to live the rest of their life with pain and suffering or not? Voluntary active euthanasia is a more desirable means to end a life then suicide. Why should one live a life with involuntary misery when they have the option not to? In the three places where voluntary euthanasia is legal there is no evidence that it will lead to the slippery slope.

Seeing this, it should be legalized in more places. It is ones right to choose whether he/she wants to live through pain or not. Who is to tell us that we have to live a life of suffering? It is one’s decision and theirs only.