Your topic must be relevant to the Canadian health care system. Examples will be discussed in class....

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Your topic must be relevant to the Canadian health care system. Examples will be discussed in class. In your outline, describe why you chose this issue? What position are you taking? Why is it important to health care? Your outline must include a thesis statement and at least one relevant scholarly source which is not listed as a required course reading.It must include a minimum of 8 sources outside of the course reader.
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The right and choice to die seems to be thought of as a calamity and an unexpected grief. To many the idea of a physician assisting in ones death, or a patient deciding when they should die is very foreign and forbidden. This is due to many aspects including the ethical principles, religious, and cultural, and legal beliefs of people. Physician assisted suicide (PSA) and euthanasia are both very debatable matters, in many countries it is illegal, Canada is one of the countries that has legalized it, In 2016 Bill C-14 became a law, after being illegal for over 30 years. In many countries where physician assisted suicide and euthanasia are illegal it is considered murder, for example Britain, to kill another person deliberately is murder or manslaughter, even if the other person asks you to kill them, as well as suicide, anyone convicted of aiding or assisting in suicide could land you serious jail time. Taking the life of a human is something that only God should have control over and is not meant to be put in the hands of other humans, despite the fact that a patient desires it. I chose the end of life topic for my essay because I am strongly against the idea of human life being placed into our own hands, as much as the patient desires it, I believe that everyone should wait till their time comes. I strongly disagree with physicians assisting in ones death because physicians are the ones we go to for help, the ones we go to when we have no idea what’s going on with our bodies, the ones we go to in life or death situations, they are supposed to be life savers, not the ones who take life away. Many questions and moral beliefs arise with this topic, it makes you question the ethical beliefs of doctors, they were trained and silenced to save lives, not to facilitate and assist with a patient’s death. I believe that even when a patient is competent and wishes for their life to come to an end by the help of physicians that it is considered homicide. This issue is very important in health care because there are other routes to take when patients are suffering from serious and long-term illness, for example palliative care. A well-trained team provides palliative care in order to help the patient, and their family. Good palliative care is meant to control physical, psychological, social, spiritual and existential suffering. This essay will evaluate the ethics of physicians who participate in assisting patients with death and the decisions they make in providing the best care for patients as well as the religious, cultural and legal factors surrounding this subject.

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Running Head: EUTHANASIA
EUTHANASIA 		9
Euthanasia in the Ethical Context of Canadian Healthcare System
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Introduction
	The incurability of terminal diseases and the evolution of intellectual liberty of human society have led to the development of the aspect, named euthanasia in the realm of healthcare sector. Euthanasia or the Physician Assisted Suicide allows a person to seek the assistance of physicians to attain a painless death in the form of poisonous drugs insertion in the body. As stated by Waals, Post, Peers and Kiekens (2018), euthanasia is seemed, as an unethical practice for many people, while some favour it as a form of empowering human will. 
Although euthanasia is illegal in most of the countries in the world, it has been legalized in Canada, raising controversial issues regarding the limits of liberty of human will and the role of physicians conflicting with the perspective of relief from pain and a person’s ability to choose the course of their lives. In the current essay, the topic of euthanasia is chosen, as it remains one of the less discussed and highly controversial aspects, having the potential of offering in depth assessment of the human society, its evolution and right of living as well as dying.
In my personal view, I oppose the practice of euthanasia and strongly feel that it should not be legalized under any circumstances. The topic is important in the realm of healthcare sector, as euthanasia cannot take place without the physicians’ approvals and assistance, raising questions about their role in the practice, which is an amalgamation of contradictory ideologies.
Discussion to Supporting the Position
	The concept of euthanasia is comparatively a new in the world of healthcare services. As defined by David, Luck, Cortizo, DeDonno and Roshan (2018), euthanasia is the act of helping a person committing suicide as a means of getting relieved from suffering generated through terminal and incurable diseases. Although euthanasia sounds as a noble gesture of reducing the excruciating pain, it does reduce the support users’ will to fight the disease and live longer, despite the inevitable outcome. 
As assessed by Engilis Jr, Engilis and Paul-Murphy (2018), euthanasia is a matter of personal preferences and if a person is willing to kill themselves, then medical assistance should be there to help them in attaining their wills. 	Considering the nature of the act, euthanasia can be categorized as voluntary and involuntary sections. In case of active euthanasia, the physician gives fatal drug doses to the support user in order to end their life, keeping the intentions solely focused on reducing pain of the person. 
In case of involuntary euthanasia, caregivers give drugs, which gradually create life threatening situations and eventual death. As argued by Fontalis, Prousali and Kulkarni (2018), euthanasia is a misuse of medicinal drugs and the incorrect interpretation of liberty of will, as euthanasia spreads a negative influence on people who live vulnerable lives.
	The ethical concerns surrounding euthanasia arises on the contradiction it poses against the Hippocratic Oath. As identified by More (2018), as a person takes the path of becoming a physician in actual terms, they are bound to take the Hippocratic Oath that makes them the protector of life at all times, ensuring the sustaining of human life. As euthanasia ends human life, any physician taking part in the process raises contradiction to the Hippocratic Oath. Although contradictory to ethical norms, it has to agreed that euthanasia, does provide relief to people who are beyond cure and the treatment is unbearably painful. 
It is also seen that euthanasia helps reducing depletion of family savings on treatment, which in the context of the terminal diseases prove to be unfruitful. As noted by Sprung et al. (2018), euthanasia gives people the satisfaction of taking decisions for their own lives and attain a lesser painful death than the actual one. 
Despite the positive aspects of euthanasia, it cannot be denied that taking life on will, irrespective of self or others is not natural and is reflection of weak will power, keeping de-motivation at the core.

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