There would be some cases in which family members would want the parent's money instead of it being spent for hopeless medical treatment and request that the parent be put out of his or her misery. There have also been some cases in which the doctor performed the inhumane task without any form of consent (Katz). ... If that isn't inhumane, what is? ...
The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. ... Legalizing euthanasia would save substantial financial resources which could be diverted to more "useful" treatments. ... The treatment's worse than the disease. ... In fact, it's downright inhumane. ... In the case of the terminally ill, that means people have the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment when it's apparent to them that all the treatment is doing is destroying their dignity, and reducing them to some subhuman level of humanity. ...
If someone writes in a living will, while they are still declared mentally stable, that they would not want their life to be prolonged by certain treatments or life support, then the law would have to respect that. ... People say that assisted suicide is cruel, heartless, inhumane, and unethical. But in my opinion forcing a person suffer against their final wishes is extremely cruel, heartless, inhumane, and unethical ...
