Euthanasia

Euthanasia
(The Ethical Debate)

Over the past two weeks, our Health Minister,Mr Khaw Boon Wan raised the issue of the possibility of euthanasia being legalised in Singapore. Why am I not surprised by this?

We are such a rational, pragmatic society, that even now, the issue of death (or helping one to die)is surfaced in parliament. Well, this is a nation which wants more babies but ironically, with its pro-abortion laws, has one of the highest legal pregnancy termination rate. We have long accepted the Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA), and the need to have at doctors to certify someone who is brain dead as legally dead, or even the AMD (Advanced Medical Directive)....Now, will we soon allow doctor-assisted suicides?

But this is what I personally find more morbid.
What about ethics and religion?

I know that countries which have allowed enthanasia call it "mercy-killing". It's supposed to allow the terminally-ill, a quick and dignified end before the illnesses take their toll, and to cut short the suffering. The closest we have come is the AMD, but that too, is something that most Singaporeans are not comfortable with it.

Are we ready to discuss this? I don't know.
For me, humans should not play God.