Resolved: It is wrong to use euthanasia

My opponent claims no way to verify if their will to live has gone. But my response to that is that If there is no way to verify the will to live, then they will not use euthanasia since the patient hasn't asked for it. IF they were to experience such a medial condition as you propose then they wouldn't get euthanasia since no way to be sure if person wants it. Again I point out multiple times this is an option, if your a devoted Christian chances are you will request not to have euthanasia if you live where I live in Texas where it is available. If not then you will take it, the patient must decide so if in a mental state where a choices can't be made or verified then the patient will be left alone. His next argument is this "Another point to consider is that if we allow euthanasia for physical ailments that are incurable why don't we kill people suffering from asperger's, autism and down's syndrome? They suffer a lot with bullying, devleopmental issues and often grow up to have nightmares of their past. ADHD is treatable but also incurable. Just because it isn't physically killing them doesn't make it better." My response: I agree mental pain can be just as bad as physical pain and technically there is a cure for that, suicide. No one can stop someone from committing suicides in fact Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. http://www.bullyingstatistics.org... Extension of response: I am not saying suicide is good what I am saying is that technically the people with these issues/diseases have a way out so they wouldn't need euthanasia. Now I am not saying "hey if your life sucks suicide" I am not advocating that I am just saying that they have a choice to suicide if they wanted to so no reason to even consider euthanasia and again the current use of Euthanasia is only used on diseases that are automatically result in death. I have ADD that is also in a way incurarble but there is no reason to suicide for it, but it would be easy to do if I wanted to. Suicide is reletivly easy, you could jump off a building, shoot yourself, stab yourself, you could even do something as simple as taking certain pills or drowning in a pool. Extension for euthanasia on suicide: Now with the diseases I mentioned earlier like cancer you have no choice because you are surrounded by doctors and nurses so you are 24/7 monitored. Also you are strapped on a bed and probably to sick and ill to even have enough energy to commit the task. The main core reason however why euthanasia cannot be used for the things you bought up is normally used if someone is going to die anyway. His next argument is that Depression and anxiety are actually referred to as mental illnesses [http://psychcentral.com......]. Anxiety can get as extreme as paranoid schizophrenia and the likes. In the same way a non-mental illness can also affec toen's judgment despite not directly being known for it. I guess he is backing up his argument saying some can't judge if they want Euthanasia but I already addressed that earlier. His net argument is about my quality of life part of the case. HE thinks I am saying quality of life improves since less sick people. Now if they had ebola which can spread that would be true since chances of others being infected would be less. But that isn't my argument anyway the point there was that one gone from cancer or whatever doesn't make a difference in quality of life, only difference would be more money left for government since off health coverage but I am not advocating that in my quality of life argument. Clarification of my quality of life argument: What it is saying is that a doctors job is to uphold quality of life and that if the life is going to end anyway and they can't uphold the quality of life, or it will go down if they continue to live doctors have a right to use euthanasia. Also I am saying people should have a choice to live a terrible miserable few months or just pass away. Mental pain/illnes sshould ne dealth with. the misison of anyone, psychologist or phycisian, shoul,d be to cure the person by any means necessary for as log as possible against any odds. Response: I understand this argument but when a doctor gives up it means he can't do anything about it. IT means we have no cure or no way of stopping the death or the cancer or whatever has gotten to such a high stage no doctor can save the person. Spritiuality is nonexistent in medicine and legality. Please do not involve it, this is a secular debate about a law mad ein a secular state. Unles syou are specifically referring to shariah law states which al outlaw euthanasia absolutely. Response: It is existent in this debate. People can go through pain related to religion of they are Baptist and haven't gotten baptized yet and know they can't cause they are about to die, or if they are my religion apostolic and haven't gotten the holy ghost yet. They could go insane and face pain due to the realization they are going to hell if they believe in that. Also if you belie in god you believe god made medicine so again it depends on what you believe and so on. So I can include religion since this is a realistic scenario and some believe in god. But honestly I don't care if voters or you don't count the spiritual part was a small part of my case. Conclusion: Vote for me because most of my points were not attacked but also because of the fact I prove it is reasonable to have euthanasia as a choice. Again if you don't believe in euthanasia or you believe you can survive either by god or just from a random miracle then you don't have to take euthanasia. But one thing must be understood, that when this is offered to you that means the doctors have given up on you so you cannot excpt any help medical wise except for medicines to relive pain maybe. Just consider that when this is offered it usually is offered when there is no cure for you. I prove that this should be a choice because some don't have as much faith as others and not all can endure the massive pain.