Financial

Doctors and nurses are in high demand all over the world and pro euthanasia activists say that these health and medical facilities should be used on people that have a chance of getting better. Why waste precious resources on someone that has no hope of being cured?

Research has shown that understaffed hospitals and healthcare services are more likely to make a mistake and provide a lesser quality of care. So maybe attending to a patient who wants to die immediately is not the best use of medical staff’s time and maybe many more lives can be saved if doctors and nurses had the time freed up to attend to other patients. But is this giving doctors too much power? They are just human after all and not to mention, do doctors even want to end lives when for centuries they have been saving them? Doctors take a Hippocratic Oath upon graduation from medical school which says something along the lines of “first do no harm” and performing acts of euthanasia would be in direct violation of this.

The pressure to quickly make a decision in order to save resources can accidently result in family and doctors making the wrong choice. Upon being told that you have only six months to live a patient may decide to end their life at four or five months before the pain got unbearable but this cuts down the time spent with family and friends. This also minimises the chance of discovering doctor error or even a new cure because miracles can happen.