Despite the fact that life is beautiful and amazing, the only thing that is guaranteed to a person in life is that he will die. However, no one can accurately predict the day of his death. Even a terminally ill patient who endures unthinkable suffering cannot know when his last hour will come. This is known only to a desperate suicide, and even then not 100%. If his plan is not fully realized, a severe form of disability is possible. There is another option for intentional death - euthanasia. This is such a medical practice, according to which a terminally ill person experiencing severe suffering has the right to resort to the services of doctors in order to quickly transition to another world.
Holy Scripture says that God does not send a person greater trials than he is able to survive. A miracle of healing can happen at any moment. Does a person have the right to manage his own life if he does not fully understand its meaning? And do doctors who took the Hippocratic oath have the right to prematurely take a life? Euthanasia is a concept that goes completely against the principles of medicine. Greatthe ancient Greek physician and recognized father of medicine, Hippocrates, said that he would never provide anyone with a lethal remedy and would not show the way to it. In ancient Sparta, infirm, sick and weak babies were thrown off a cliff. The Nazis also practiced the theory of "unnecessary people" in their time, and where are they now?
Euthanasia is a procedure that has two types of implementation: passive and active. The meaning of the passive lies in the fact that doctors, with the consent of the person himself or his immediate family, stop the life-sustaining therapy of a hopelessly ill patient. The active method consists in administering medicines to the doomed to ensure a painless and quick death. Today, euthanasia is a legal procedure. It takes place (subject to strict rules) in countries such as Australia, Belgium, Holland, USA (Washington and Oregon), Switzerland and Sweden. Supporters of this technique consider it humane and argue that the task of doctors is not to support the suffering of the patient, but to alleviate them.
The euthanasia of animals is a difficult and painful test for their owners. Pets tend to live less than their owners. Therefore, people are fully responsible for the quality of their lives. Euthanasia of cats and dogs in Russia is a legal procedure. It is legally assigned to animals if their aggressive and uncontrollable behavior poses a threat to others. It can be caused by incurable diseases that cause pain and discomfort to the pet.suffering, as well as congenital pathologies and injuries incompatible with normal life. The euthanasia of animals is also prescribed in case of detection of infectious diseases dangerous for humans.
When the only way out of the current situation is, as they say in some cases, "life-giving euthanasia", this procedure is carried out in two stages. First, anesthesia is produced by suppressing the activity of the central nervous system. This is usually done by injecting the substances lithiopental and propofol. It begins to act within 1-2 minutes. After 10-15 minutes, when the depth of anesthesia suppresses all the main reflexes, proceed to the second stage of lulling. The animal, which is in a state of deep anesthesia, is injected with a drug that helps to stop breathing. Over the next 3-25 minutes, this leads to cardiac arrest and death. The doctor should not leave the patient until 100% death is confirmed. The owners should be philosophical about the fact of parting, because this is how the world works, and it was not invented by us. The important thing is that the pet will forever remain in our memory.
