Euthanasia should never be considered.

What my opponent said in his last speech: "So first of all everyone will endure pain in life and everyone will eventually die. Thus according to what you wrote, everyone can be euthanized because we all qualify. This pain you mention can vary between a paper cut and a terminal disease." My response: He clearly doesn't even know what Euthanasia is and he wants to have a debate on it? It is ovboius I meant pain from the diseas that resulted in someone being offered Euthanasia, the only time someone is offered this is when there is no cure the doctor can provide, figured you knew this stuff be prepared for a debate over a topic you present. I will first define Euthanasia with many definitions so my opponent can understand it's meaning, I thought he knew its meaning but since he thinks pains like paper cuts and any disease is what Euthanasia is used for he doesn't. Euthanasia: 1st definition from medical dictionary :The act of putting a person or animal to death painlessly or allowing them to die by withholding medical services, usually because of a painful and incurable disease. Mercy killing is another term for euthanasia. Clarification: Millions of people are diagnosed with severe illnesses every day such as cancer, AIDS, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. These diseases have the potential to cause extreme pain. Also, patients with a terminal illness already know that they will die. They are in pain, and are forced into life-prolonging treatments. The delayed life is a future filled with pain and indignity. Life is a beautiful thing full of hope and love, but a terminal illness may change it into agony and worries. Euthanasia is the only way to relieve the pains. For that reason, such patients should be assisted by doctors in order to expedite their death. According to the Journal of Advanced Nursing: 2nd definition from bing: Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. 3rd definition: 2 definitions from the best source ever Merriam Webster: A. the act or practice of killing someone who is very sick or injured in order to prevent any more suffering B. the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals So as you can see in all these definitions the person was going to have a slow painful death anyway and now I will go to my case. Intro: The term euthanasia comes from the Greek words "eu" and "thanatos" which combined means "well-death" or "dying well" (Euthanasia, 2008). The fact that life is important has a relative meaning. When a patient with a terminal illness is hover between life and death, the value of a decent death might be more important than uncomfortable life. People falling under the definition of possible euthanasia patients are the patients whose brains are not functioning, or bodies are dying. They may think that they would rather die than lead such lives with their bodies in severe pain every day (Amarasekara, 2002). That is to say, the patients who are kept alive at a vegetative level, or informed of a terminal cancer, are forced to believe in a miracle of a possibility. Therefore, euthanasia should be legalized in the case of a terminal illness. Observation: I am not saying suicide should be legal or anything like that, I am backing up Euthanasia to let someone suicide only when they are going to die anyway and endure suffering. cont. 1. right to not suffer "We should be able enjoy a right guaranteed in the European Declaration of Human Rights -- the right not to be forced to suffer. It should be considered as much of a crime to make someone live who with justification does not wish to continue as it is to. Although it is true that people have basic human dignity and life is sacred, life is not the only way of guaranteeing the dignity of humans. Some people say a decent death is more important than life at the moment of death. In other words, the reason that the right to live is important is not because a man has a body, but because a man lives like a human being. When the pain has increased, the patient's life is no of little living, and the patient really hopes to end it to avoid suffer a pain. These patients were unloaded by the nurses and caregivers and were in horrible condition, often being very emaciated and dirty (Benedict & Caplan, 2007). By this time, euthanasia would be in the best recipe of a patient who is faced with death. This right should not be reserved. If it is legalized, the patient's interest would be protected. Also, if the opportunity of death is not allowed, we might lose the direction that our lives will go in democratic societies today. Therefore, a patient with a terminal illness should have the opportunity and the right to choose death. cont 2: quality of life "A doctor"s job is not only to prevent death but also to improve their patient"s quality of life. Not practicing euthanasia at the request of the dying person is violating a person"s rights, creating an economic burden, interfering with a doctor"s job, and increasing suffering cited from mic.com cont 3: freedom of choice "Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide if you should live or not. Since it is not their life and they are not in your situation, they cannot make that kind of decision for you. They give us the liberty to decide our job, our family, our religion, and even our sex preference. Why should they not give us the right to decide if we want to live a painful life or die a painless death? I will now attack my opponents later points after his first argument: he brings up enlightenment which he stated means "one who realizes how precious life is," and I agree with that 100% but what my opponent must understand is that your life isn't precious in the scenario in which Euthanasia is used for. The reason it is defined as mercy killer in definitions is because it saves a person from insane physical, mental, and sometimes spiritual pain. I will go over each pain in the following few points. A. Physical pain: the diseases that isn't curable is usually very painful not only because it is incurable but also because the person is dying, and dyeing very slowly. Some diseases that are known to cause extreme pain are cancer, aids and Alzheimer's disease as provide by journal of advanced nursing. B. Mental pain: Some of the patients for Euthanasia have serious mental problems as many neuroscience studies point out. Also some of this mental pain results from the person knowing he is going to die which makes his quality of life very low and his last few months or so to live very miserable whether a spouse is his company or not. C. Spiritual: Lets say you believe in a religion like mine known as apostolic, you could go into mental break downs because we believe you need the gift of the holy ghost to go to heaven if you are about to die without that and you believe in this as well you could go through insane mental pains because you realize you are going to hell. Another point he brings up is this "Character building-how one responds to suffering can build good character. My response: The only response needed for this moral based argument is that if your going to die soon your character doesn't matter. Also 2 months of insane pain isn't a good scenario or time frame to build good character if you did bad things the last 10 or 20 years of your life you can't make it up in a short time frame. My main point: Honestly I don't believe in Euthanasia. Bet you are shocked right? But since I am con I must argue it and I am arguing it for this main reason. I am apostolic so I believe and have seen miracles, my dad had severe cancer, he prayed and was healed. However not everyone is religious and shares these values which is why Euthanasia is a choice. If you have my beliefs you don't have to take it. The main reason I should be voted today because this is a choice and I have shown why some need it.