First, when euthanasia is proposed one of the first arguments said is that the persons’ who are participating are “playing God”? Some will argue that euthanasia is “infringing upon God’s will”. Meaning, when a person is going to die their body will be overcome with illness and disease, and the person’s organs and whole body will shutdown. Therefore, “God’s will” would be acknowledged as “man’s physical and biological nature”. According to this notion God’s power would be taken from him if someone chose euthanasia. If those who believe it took the idea that people were “playing God” seriously, then logically there could be no more technological or medical advancements. In other words, any curable diseases or viruses cou

Finally, suppose a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness that modern medicine has yet to find a cure for. After some time the person begins to struggle and suffer with the illness, and still no cure arrives. With no exact prognosis of how long the person will live with so much suffering, should he be able to choose death over suffering? Never the less, in some cases, like that of Doctor George R. Minot who was found to have diabetes in 1921, there was aid within a few years of his diagnosis. After struggling with his diet for two years, which was the only way they knew how to deal with diabetes, Dr. Minot was saved from and untimely death when insulin became available in 1923. Dr. Minot’s case is a good argument against euthanasia, because it shows how medical advances continue to surprise us all the time. However, the medical advances and what they are capable of are always countered by what they are not capable of.

Anthony Flew stated, “the advance of medicine has not reached a stage where all diseases are curable. And no one seriously thinks that it has. At most, this continuing advance has suggested that we need never despair of finding cures some day.” The problem is we don’t know how long a person will have to suffer before a medicine that possibly could

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