Thesis: Euthanasia should not be recognized at all as it undermines the overall worth of human life, it is destructive to the practice of medicine and it is an act of killing which must not be accommodated in the legal system (POD)
Arguments 1 (Write in note form)
Argument from the other side
Opponents argue that everyone has the right to decide how they should die.
Refutation
However, they are not in the right state of mind to decide……
Main idea
Euthanasia undermines the overall worth of human life.
* denial of the ongoing worth of the lives
* no one is in the position to determine the worth of another’s person’s life * no yardstick to measure the worth of a human life
Argument 2
Argument from the other side
Refutation
Many argue……………….
Main idea
Euthanasia undermines the dispositions we require in doctors and is therefore destructive of the practice of medicine. * Doctor’s commitment is to save lives, improve quality of human life * not in line with the Hippocratic Oath
* Doctor assisted suicide makes taking a patient’s life legal within the medical profession. * Doctors will not inspire trust unless patients are confident that doctors are for no reasons disposed to kill them
Argument 3
Argument from the other side
Other people claim that…………………..
Refutation
…………………………………………
Main idea
Euthanasia is an act of killing which must not be accommodated in the legal system. * It is a type of killing
* The legal system is the foundation that upholds the worth and dignity of every human – should not legalise the killing of the innocent. * Euthanasia even when it is voluntary, involves denial of the ongoing worth of the lives of those reckonedto be candidates for euthanasia.
Sources/References (must have at least three different format)
1. Barlowe, B (2006), Euthanasia: Mercy or Murder? Leadership University, viewed 20 November 2009,
<http://www.leaderu.com/focus/euthanasia05.html>
2. Bamgbose, O (2004), ‘Another Face of Murder’, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 48(1), pp.111-121
3. Jennings, K (2007), Euthanasia: Murder not Mercy, New York, Sage Publication
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