In the United States alone, millions of people have no medical insurance and studies have shown that the elderly, the poor and minorities are often denied access to needed treatment or pain control. Doctors are being pressured by HMOs to reduce care; "futile care guidelines" are being instituted, enabling health facilities to deny necessary and wanted interventions; and health care providers are often likely to benefit financially from providing less, rather than more, care for their patients.
Many people, mostly pro-euthanasia activists, refer to euthanasia as "dying with dignity". This phrase sort of makes euthanasia seem like it is very nice and a pleasant way to die. Many people do not know of the different methods of killing that go on when euthanasia is practiced. For example, one method of dying is to be gassed with carbon monoxide gas and have one's head covered with a plastic bag. Does that method really seem "dignified"? Another method of killing is the lethal injection. This method usually requires that family members be removed from the room because these lethal injections cause such violent muscle spasms and convulsions (Unacceptable or Questionable Methods of Euthanasia). Euthanasia is hardly "dignified" if you look at it from a different viewpoint. This term of "dignified" is nothing more than a pro-death way of glorifying the act of euthanasia.
There are many consequences that could result from legalizing the practice of euthanasia, and these are not good ones either. If it were legal to help people die or for doctors to kill people then society would slowly begin to break down. The value of a human life would slowly go down. People do not see the consequences of many terrible occurrences until it is too late. For example, no one new what Hitler was really doing or did.......
