Because why should the patient have to go through so much pain and agony knowing that there is no hope.
Another reason that advocates of euthanasia advance is that patients have the right to choose what happens to them. In his essay Quill supports the "patient's right to die with as much control and dignity as possible". Patients' voices should always be heard. McIver voices the concern of patients when he argues: "We dont want to die: however, we know we are going to die, and when the time for dying comes we want the right to manage the process of our dying". Everyone should have the right to make the decision regarding their life, and yet for some, at least one author notes that patients dont always have that right. Some patients have to beg. Barbara Huttman reveals that in the case of Mac, a cancer patient who was being kept alive by liquid food, IV solutions, and an oxygen mask, he was not allowed to die. Huttman reports that, "He begged us: Mercyfor God's sake, please just let me go". The right to die is often overlooked by physicians who are determined to keep their patients alive, but as presented by some writers, patients deserve to have the right to make that decision.
A third reason some writers are advocates of euthanasia, is the pain the family is going through. As in the case of Earle Springs, "Earle Springs is not the man he used to beOnce a man with a keen mind, he is now called senile by many. Goodman reports, "His family has pleaded to have him removed from the life-support system". Also Barbara Huttman reports the agony Mac's wife was going through when code blue was called once again, "Nodont let them do this to himfor God's sakeplease, no more". As Timothy M. Quill writes in his essay families want to spend their last moments together, like Diane his patient suffering from leukemia. She stayed home with her son and husband, during her last hours. Although when the time came to take her own life she was alone.
