Recently, a 5-year-old boy suffered from "self-destructive appearance syndrome": he repeatedly bites himself, and his family took care of him 24 hours a day to prevent self-harm, which became a hot search. While netizens were sympathizing and griefing for the little boy, a netizen suddenly made a statement in the comment section, "I really hope that China can support euthanasia, give some patients who have no hope of treatment and no cure, and also give the families of these patients a relief!"
So, without considering the special national factors, should we agree to use euthanasia for Chinese people?
Let’s talk about this 5-year-old boy first. In order to save the child, Huang Qian and his wife decided to do all their efforts to improve the quality of their children’s life and find opportunities for him to “rebirth”. At present, the medical community is not clear about the pathogenesis of self-harm in LNS patients. The existing treatment is only symptomatic treatment, and "treatment of symptoms but not root causes."
is at least certain. If you don’t get help from others, curing the boy’s illness will inevitably put the entire family under tremendous financial pressure. If you put it in an ordinary family, it will be bankrupt and not enough medical expenses.
However, since the couple chose to do their best to treat their children, we respect their choices, and as a child, there is still a long time to do so. Compatriots with capable people can also lend a helping hand to help them through their difficulties.
But not everyone can be exposed by the media after suffering from terminal illness and receive support from the people of the whole country. More than 99% of terminally ill patients die in loneliness. Those people are suffering from torture at the last moment. Should they be euthanized?
In 1986, a doctor named Pu Liansheng from Hanzhong, Shaanxi was sued by the family of the deceased for suspected helping others to perform "euthanasia".
The deceased was a patient named Xia Suwen. He was diagnosed by the hospital two years ago with "cirrhosis ascites". Because the condition is serious and cannot be effectively treated, as the frequency of the disease becomes more frequent, Xia Suwen's condition becomes worse. She is often tortured by the pain in the middle of the night and sometimes she can't stand it, and even uses her head to hit the bed or wall.
Xia Suwen's eldest daughter told her younger brother about her illness Wang Mingcheng . As a filial son, he immediately asked for leave to go back to take care of his mother. Because the condition worsened very seriously, Xia Suwen sometimes fainted due to pain, and the incontinence caused by cirrhosis and ascites also made the elderly feel humiliated.
So the old man asked his son to find a way to let her go. Because the old man was tortured too much, the son had no choice but to ask the doctor to prescribe euthanasia. At first, the doctor disagreed, but he could not resist the old man's son's requests again and again, so he gave the old man an injection and euthanasia. The process of some hospitals was omitted. Although the hospital stopped him many times, the doctor still prescribed euthanasia.
Later, the old man died, and the old man's eldest daughter sued his brother and the doctor. Although he was finally acquitted, the year-long prison disaster caused the two to lose their jobs. Later, the old man's son was in such a state of pain as his mother, but no one dared to euthanize him.
Later, Pu Liansheng was interviewed by CCTV host, the reporter asked him: "If time could be repeated, would you choose to continue euthanizing Xia Suwen?"
Pu Liansheng replied: "I regret it very much. If they kneel down again, even if they give me 100,000 or 1 million, I will not do it again."
This is the first euthanized patient in my country. Such an outcome did not free anyone, but instead made the doctor-patient relationship worse. Without receiving the respect as it deserves, such euthanasia will only harm the doctor, so the doctor dare not prescribe it.
In addition, the reason why my country does not promote euthanasia is mainly because some people may carry out some illegal activities through the legalization of euthanasia, which will bring unpredictable harm to people at that time.
Currently only Netherlands , Japan, Switzerland , some states in the United States, Australia, Germany, Belgium , and Canada allows euthanasia.
The Netherlands is the first country to legalize euthanasia, but the Netherlands has set a minimum age for "euthanasia" rights to 12 years old.At the same time, if minors over 12 years old need to take "euthanasia" measures, they must obtain the consent of parents, doctors and other parties.
The era is changing, and technology is also improving, and more and more diseases can be cured with technology. However, medical expenses have also increased exponentially. Terminal illness can be said to be bankrupt. In addition, no one can help you bear the pain and torture before your death. But under such a serious doctor-patient relationship, even if our country agrees to euthanasia, most doctors dare not prescribe medicine at will.
