Unfortunately, the rapidly developing scientific and technical progress is not able to change the final outcome of all things because it is expressed by the words of the Great English Classics of William Shakespeare, «nothing is eternal under the Moon».
Morality
Death.
According to the ideas of modern medicine, death is the cessation of livelihoods of a living organism. It is neither sad, but it should be recognized - this is the only event that can be guaranteed to a person after his birth. However, no one is given to predict when it breaks his last hour. Even desperate suicide cannot be sure of all 100 percent in the fatal outcome of his actions, because there is always a place for the case, happy or not very. For example, it is still possible to occur a heavy forms of disability, in the case of not to the end of the idea. Histories are also well known cases when people some miracle survived even after receiving potent poisons. Nevertheless, there is something predetermined in that phenomenon.
Points of view.
Almost all world religions unanimously stimulate that everything is in the hands of the Lord. Consequently, the birth of a person and his death are part of a certain program. Holy Scriptures claim that God does not send a person to such tests with which he would not have managed to cope. It concerns people deep believers. The progressive half of humanity in this respect adheres to such an opinion that overcoming complex obstacles, as a rule, is significantly strengthened by the Spirit: «What does not kill us make us stronger». So in the right of a person right to dispose of his own life, if he does not comprehend before its end?
History.
The generally accepted father of medicine and an outstanding ancient Greek doctor Hippocrat argued that under any circumstances would not give a man to a deathly man and tells the way to him. Medicine is, above all, the science of humane, the main criterion of which is the treatment of patients and providing them to urgent assistance. It suggests the question of whether doctor, giving an oath of hippocratic, deliberately deprive the life of a sick person? Historical evidence represents blatant facts of large-scale killings. Nazis practiced ideology «unnecessary people», And in the ancient Sparta, for example, weak babies and weak patients were dumped from a sheer cliff. Well, where now these tops of fate?
Definition
Modern medicine has such means, the use of which is guaranteed to lead to death. Euthanasia is a modern medical practice aimed at rapid and painless cessation of a person who experiences unbearable physical suffering and having a chance of recovery. To implement this procedure, either the consent of the patient itself, or the resolution of its relatives, in case of its incapacity. Similar actions also apply to animals. Today it is a completely legal measure that requires strict compliance with rules, in countries such as: Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Australia and USA (Oregon and Washington). Currently there are two varieties of euthanasia: passive and active.
Passive euthanasia.
Passive euthanasia is a refusal of treatment capable of ensuring the maintenance of life. It can be carried out in the process of already provided assistance or before it began. Methods for the implementation of this form of termination of the patient may be in the cessation of patient feeding, in refusing to introduce the necessary fluid or in the termination of drug therapy. As a result of such actions, the exhausted organism does not cope with the functions of maintaining life and the patient will inevitably go to the world of other. Such measures are usually resorted to those situations where a deadly patient is no longer able to do without therapy and can slowly die under its action for long months and even years.
Active euthanasia.
Active euthanasia is an introduction to a dying patient, medical drugs that inevitably lead to fast and painless death. Such a procedure is often called suicide with the help of doctors. The main difference of this type of euthanasia from its passive variety is that the doctor is actually a bill. However, not all doctors agree to actually actually actually enforce the wills of the patient or his relatives. For this purpose in Switzerland, the organization "Donty" was specifically created, which provides a special preparation, the action of which the patient launches independently.
Euthanasia animals
The handsaling of animals is always a painful test for their loving owners. Today in Russia this procedure is quite legal. Pets, as a rule, live fewer people who bear full responsibility for those who have tamed. This procedure is prescribed by a veterinarian on complete legal grounds in the following cases:
- uncontrollable and aggressive behavior of animals, which constitutes a threat to others;
- Heavy injuries and congenital pathologies that are not compatible with the life of our younger brothers;
- Fatal diseases causing large agile suffering to pets;
- Infectious diseases pose a threat to distribution.
In all listed cases, the only way out is euthanasia, which is carried out in two stages:
- First, the veterinarian produces anesthesia to the method of suppressing the functions of the central nervous system. For this purpose, the animal usually produces injection «Propofola» and «Liteopentala», The action of which begins after 1-2 minutes. Usually 15 minutes to suppress all major reflexes.
- When the state of deep anesthesia is reached, a special drug is introduced to a sick animal, which leads to a stopping of breathing. Depending on the specific case, within 3 to 25 minutes, this leads to the final stop of the heart. The doctor carrying out this procedure has no right to leave the animal before death.
Conclusion
The concepts of passive or active euthanasia are essentially the same moral indicator that cannot be divided into different categories. If a society is accepted at least one of the forms of deliberate cessation of human life, it is completely logical that this may entail a number of unoccupied crimes. Therefore, in this situation, this issue should be considered not only from the point of view of morality and medical ethics, as well as in terms of jurisprudence. Opinions of readers Our website about euthanasia is unlikely to come to a common denominator, because the most important human values are united in this issue: life, mutual assistance, compassion and faith.
