I want to live whether I am ill or not

Euthanasia (Do humans have the right to end their lives if terminally ill?)

Hi my name is John Stuart Mill and I am an English philosopher who advocated utilitarianism. In my opinion a human being can decide to end the life of someone who’s terminally ill only if this action produces you happiness. For example if you have a relative in coma, than you are constantly suffering because you are sad. So, if the doctors determine that your relative might never get out of the coma, than you can say its right to end someone’s life because your are seeking for your happiness. But if you have happiness and someone is ill then you don’t have a right to end someone’s life due to the reason that you already have happiness and it’s useless to seek happiness through the end of someone’s life because it doesn’t affect you in any way. It doesn’t intersect between you and your happiness. I think euthanasia in the occasion of terminally ill people means that these people are in pain. Many of the ill people don’t want to still be living for the time they have left because they are suffering, so they can chose if they want to still live or not. On the contrary many people who are ill and feel pain sometimes achieve happiness and want to still live for the time they have remaining. Ending your life is a decision each person makes because it’s something personal and you decide whether you want to still live or not. It all depends in your happiness and pleasure of still living.

-John Stuart Mill (Camila Chicas)