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Topic
#3845

Should voluntary euthanasia be legalised within hospitals?

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Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Winner
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After not so many votes...

It's a tie!
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Standard
Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
Two weeks
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1,000
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One month
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Description

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Round 1
Pro
#1
Forfeited
Con
#2
I want to quote from Wikipedia here  about the Hippocratic oath.

"The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts.

I think the idea of euthanasia in hospitals is hypocritical. It goes against the very nature of the physician's oath that the medicine and health takes principle on.

As we'll learn continuing on about the essence of this oath. Let's read on.



So the main takeaway here is doing no harm. Euthanizing is killing which goes with the greatest amount of harm. When harm accumulates enough, the result is death .

Wanting no harm to come to a child possibly avoiding the harm to escalate to fatality is what it is. This is what doctors do to avoid fatality with their patients.They implement medical emergency procedures to avoid this . To turn around to implement euthanasia is paradoxical. It's a contradicting practice.

A doctor that preserves a life extracting harm, that same doctor, same day will take one inflicting harm .


Round 2
Pro
#3


Going forwards with the argument of 'preserving life' only is admitting that it is not for the patient that their life is being preserved, though it is to adhere to an empty rule of the Hippocratic Oath. Where does the patient's suffering come into this if their life is preserved though they are miserable and have no other means of dying gracefully and painlessly? Should it not be that they themselves have a decision over how they live? If they want to live at all? How much pain they are willing to suffer? Where do the rights of the individual come in? That is where voluntary/non-voluntary euthanasia comes in. It is an option that they should have after following a certain plan. This maintains the integrity of medical environments as well as, and specifically, the integrity of the suffering patients.

Con
#4
I don't know what is meant by "Where does the patient's suffer come into this".

The patient is admitted to the hospital for pain. The patient has been in there let's say six months with barely any alleviation . Not much of any discomfort has been eradicated.

All the doctor can do according to what doctors do is heal. They have to keep at it.

The patients can kill themselves. They can decide that. But I'm a doctor and it's not in my business to do that. It's just as straightforward as that. What am I in business for ?

That's the question because the topic is regarding euthanasia in hospitals. Key term there is hospital.

A person as you may know may choose to commit suicide. Inside a hospital or maybe after they're released. If the doctor can't do anything further, they released the individual perhaps with some sort of pain prescription in attempt to ease things. That person at anytime can decide to euthanize themselves. Just don't ask a practicioner of medicine, health and wellness to assist.




Round 3
Pro
#5
"The patients can kill themselves. They can decide that. But I'm a doctor and it's not in my business to do that. It's just as straightforward as that. What am I in business for ?" 

This is exactly the whole point. If the patient is so chronically ill, to the point that they do not have the capabilities of putting themselves in danger or killing themselves, shouldn't you be the one to do it in order to lessen and cause no more harm? This comes back to our live debate about the father who killed their son who was suffering inhumane amounts of pain. If this is not legalised for hospitals, how else will they be able to administer a drug that kills painfully? The father should not have to suffer the wrath of law, since we established that euthanasia is a good thing for patients as a last resort, it is ethical. Since you have not fought against this argument, why would it not be right?

Con
#6
"This is exactly the whole point. If the patient is so chronically ill, to the point that they do not have the capabilities of putting themselves in danger or killing themselves, shouldn't you be the one to do it in order to lessen and cause no more harm? "

It depends on what a person signs up for. We know killing them does the ultimate harm.

"If this is not legalised for hospitals, how else will they be able to administer a drug that kills painfully?"

Legalizing killing folks which is legal for folks death row .

"euthanasia is a good thing for patients as a last resort, it is ethical. "

This is subjective.

"Since you have not fought against this argument, why would it not be right?"

I can't answer that because I'm not arguing about what is and not right.

Outside of what is right or correct for what a doctor is.

This is the bottom line.
I'm not getting an argumentation against the nature of a doctor.

Round 4
Pro
#7


"Legalizing killing folks which is legal for folks death row ."

This has nothing to do with death row. We're talking about patients chronically ill which do not have any other means of a painless death other than being administrated, by a doctor. Otherwise, it would be illegal.


"This is subjective. "

How? Since you couldn't prove why it was wrong, we established that it isn't. I already clashed against your Hippocratic Oath argument and you moved on talking about how you think it just shouldn't be something done in hospitals, you're not proving, adequately or at all, that you're against the nature of euthanasia.


The whole point of this is arguing if it is wrong or right. If it is ethical and relevant to the situation of ill patients, why shouldn't it be legalised and initiated within hospitals? If you can't prove its wrongness or irrelevancy then you're not making a point about anything. 

Con
#8

This is the bottom line.
I'm not getting an argumentation against the nature of a doctor.

So I'll just say this flat out , plain and simple as I said if you recall on the live debate.

What is the doctor in business for?

The topic has to do with this being in hospitals. It's not euthanasia in general for people and the ethics thereof .

I say as well as any doctor would, it is wrong for them to perform euthanasia on people because it's out of their profession .

Any doctor outside of an animal doctor would say that.

This is what I'll have you and others that are struggling to understand. It is simply not the job of a doctor.

Nice and simple. You can argue that it's technicalities, not ethics. But is my position justified?

It should not be done, euthanasia in hospitals as it is not a place for it. So it should not be done in them.

Only other place I can think of that is a place for it is death row hence broached.

Round 5
Pro
#9
Forfeited
Con
#10
I'll say this in closing. I didn't get a single argument against the nature of hospitals and doctors. Not in the live debate, not here.

There is no argument against it. In what sound world could you by right argue against somebody's job or profession?

You won't find a single doctor, healthcare professional that has signed up to take away life. Those that have signed up are not doctors. They don't practice to heal.

Euthanasia doesn't belong in hospitals like men that don't belong in women's restrooms.

Not the place for it. The place for killing folks is on death row. If the topic was suffering inmates on death row, that isn't a place for healing so you could make a case.

Doctors and hospitals aim to preserve life, not extinguish it.