Have you ever seen life slowly slip away from the fingers of the people you love? I can't say I have (thank God) and I hope no one has to go through such a difficult experience. I've never understood the idea that the only reason something would interest me is because of a personal backstory, euthanasia has never had a personal connection to life outside of death. We all have a connection to death because we all know someone who has died, someone who will die. I believe that death is simply something that happens sometimes faster and sometimes slower, but I believe that we all have the right to die without suffering, but it's clearly a wish.
In Israel, euthanasia is illegal, but in my opinion, the state has put the medical staff and the patients in an impossible situation, doctors are forced to sit and do nothing with patients who don't need to be in the hospital. A hospital is supposed to cure and all a doctor can do in such a situation is relieve the pain and that's usually not possible either. Even when a patient dares to ask for help, asks for their pain to be stopped, it leaves the doctor to make an impossible decision without any accompaniment at all, to play egotistical with the lives of their patients, it is not uncommon for doctors to live in this reality every day.
The first time I thought about becoming a doctor, the only thing I wanted to do was save lives, but today I am not sure if that is even possible, how many lives will I really save? And how many will I have to watch as they slowly and without relief. I have not even entered into the feelings of the patients and the family because I really think it is too terrible to describe, certainly for me. So what do I want? I want to understand the complexity of euthanasia and maybe see how I can change the mind of our society and help all those who need their pain to stop because that is why people want to become doctors, right?
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this relies on someone's values / ethics, even belief sometimes because as family, you want your hospitalized member to live, but you also want the best for them so you understand that prolonging this state instead of accepting the fact that there's nothing more you can do is not wise, so you should just let them go. for the person in the sickly state- this is them, this is their life, ultimatelyy it should be their decision to want to keep trying or to ask to be put down (not sure if that's the right word). for the doctor, following through with that kind of request will be hard, they feel the responsibility of a life in their hands in the way that- "I could have saved them" or "I could have done more" so they wouldn't have to end another persons life. there is value in life and death, even when the said individual is the one asking for the euthanasia.
overall, pretty nice, deep topic to talk about; ethics, morals, logic in one dilemma in one. this needed to be brought up.
thanks, Alma! ^^ xoxo, sol