The article entitled "British Medical Ethics Expert:Dementia Sufferers Have A ‘Duty To Die’ discusses how patients who have dementia should have the right to die through euthanasia because of the strain they put on their families and public services. This author of the article believes that “If you’re demented, you’re wasting people’s lives - your family’s lives - and you’re wasting the resources of the National Health Service.....there’s nothing wrong with feeling you ought to do so for the sake of others as well as yourself.” The author also tires to persuade people to believe their opinion by saying that the British National Health Service will be overwhelmed by these patients who have dementia and therefore it is your (the poeples) civic duty to consider euthanasia. This case, like many we have studeid rasies the question weather we should be able to pick to die. I don't think patients who have dementia should be able to pick to die because when you have demntia you are not thinking straight. Although you may be in pain and wasting others time, it is still your right as a human to continue to live no matter the state you are in. Over all, people should not choose when they want to die and how, i think it is morally incorrect.
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This article shows how some societies do not support the elderly. No matter how old, every person should receive the same treatment. It should never be someone's duty to die.
I agree with you; although dementia does present terrible living conditions that does not give the patient the right to choose to die. For one, they are in no condition to decide because of their dementia. Also, this is a decision that should be taken up by the patient's family members or caretakers.
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