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Euthanasia in Peru
By Daniel Hernandez
Specific Purpose
Topersuade my audience that the current law in Peru regarding
active euthanasia sh
ould n
ot always
condemn to custodial sentence.
Central Idea
Active euthanasia in Peru should not always condemn to custodial
sentence. In the cases like when the
murderer and all the family suffer and they are all are in favor
of doing it, there should be a different
sentence such as community work for hospitals. In some other
cases where it is found that the
murdered did it without the consent of the family, then the law
should be applied.
Introduction
Imagine a society where people live in constant fear of their
lives. Where hospitals dont treat people for
their illnesses, but kill them instead, because someone
determines that their lives are not longer worth
living. Ladies and gentlemen, its precisely this type of society
that is waiting for us if we opening
embrace the concept of euthanasia. Euthanasia refers to the
practice of ending a life in a manner which
relieves pain and suffering. But, there is a hug problem with
the current law in Peru regarding
euthanasia because it condemns people who commit active
euthanasia for almost 3 years of custodial
sentence. This type of sentence should vary according to the
case and not be as strict as it is now.
Preview
As stated by Dr. Luis Alberto Arias Bramont-Torres, a specialist
in criminal law, the Peruvian lawestablishes that euthanasia is
only condemned for active euthanasia and not for passive or
indirect
euthanasia. This means that only when someone uses lethal
substances or forces to kill a sick person can
be condemned to custodial sentence.
Body
I. For the following cases, the law should not be applied:a.When
the murderer and all the family suffer and they are all are in
favor of doing it,
there should be a different sentence such as community work for
hospitals.
b.When the sick person does have the sufficient capacity of
reasoning and says to themurderer his desires of stopping to
live.II. For the following cases, the law should be applied:
a.When the murderer does it with the verbal permission of the
sick person but, the lastone does not reason properly because of
his/her situation.
b.When the sick person and the murderer do not tell about this
decision to the rest ofthe family.
