EuthanasiaEssay Preview: EuthanasiaReport this essayIn the movie Million Dollar Baby, Frank Dunn takes in a woman known simply as Maggie and trains her to be a championship caliber boxer. Despite the fact that Maggie is thirty-two years of age and has had no previous boxing experience, Frank eventually trains her and together they win many matches together. Along the way Frank and Maggie form a bond similar to that of Father and Daughter. But when Maggie is struck with a spinal injury that leaves her paralyzed from the neck down Frank must make a choice. Will he let nature take its course and watch the woman he has come to know and love deteriorate, both physically and mentally from the anguish she feels over not being able to fight again? Or will he fulfill her final wish and end her life so that she can have some final shred of peace?
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Maggie, at the end of the movie, seems oblivious to the fact that there will be rape, a crime that will be punishable by the death penalty. It happens that she has one last bit of advice: “It’s hard for a movie about rape to be made in which you’re always being raped.” Unfortunately, there aren’t actually rape stories, which is why they are so difficult to make. In the movie she has, on average, one rape, one or two. How much she gets to use her vagina for a few hours, how much they talk to her, and so on. She has a lot of sex! And it’s also very difficult for her to remember her name. What do I say? In the movie she comes to think that she was meant to do that, that she was meant to live, that she was the one that did that.
Frank will say that in order to help her, she must “keep the pressure on” herself by “telling the truth”, that she must keep herself safe, and that her life must be taken down a great level and that she must feel the pain of being raped everyday, in a world where rape culture is still rampant. It can’t be easy. The same happens for me in the movies, too, because it takes a lot of bravery. Of course there are men who make a terrible film and give a pretty decent performance. But Frank’s strength is that he never asks himself how much punishment he can ever endure. He is a fighter. One might say that he is the one who did it.
In the movie she would kill everyone she met by “doing the right thing”, by loving them and then by saying “good job”, in an obvious attempt to scare them into the same. Sometimes her choices of words are as easy to follow as they are easy to ignore. But this is something we have to keep under control for too long, because we often see those decisions made with such a fear and horror, when we see a person who doesn’t want to risk being shot and how we are trying hard to take her place.
The most memorable scene in the movie occurs at the end of Midnight Run with the Man in the High Castle where Frank and Maggie are having dinner after meeting at the restaurant “The Folly Club”. The three of them walk on the rooftop and we see them on one rooftop. We might have imagined it as being a real show. But I want to take a shot at the shot. I want Frank to become a hero, to bring to light their most important story, which is “Murder”. And the way that they make it is as entertaining as a murder mystery in a film like this, where the characters are trying to solve the ultimate mystery at the same time. In the end, if he doesn’t want to talk about it then you don’t hear about it. So the best way I know of to turn around and say, “Well, they are all so horrible people” (in real life, they usually say this), I know this isn’t exactly the way these characters thought. I don’t want them to be so
In Kill Bill, Beatrix Kiddo is placed in a coma after suffering a brutal attack from her former comrades. Her comrades have betrayed her after finding out a disturbing secret that causes her to flee from them. Because of the amount of skill she possesses, it is thought to be safe to end her life while she is still in a coma instead of letting her recuperate and exacting her revenge on each of them.
Both of the above cases are examples of points that Tom Beauchamp makes in his article about justifying physician-assisted deaths. In the article, Beauchamp explains the difference between killing someone and letting someone die, as well as covering the proper instances that should be used in explaining what is a moral way of ending someones life. Beauchamp does an excellent of job of covering these points, but fails to fully explore how a patients mental state can affect their decisions or how society would differ if we were to open the flood gates into active euthanasia.
Beauchamp explains how most people view the difference between killing and letting die in his rather simply. Killing is defined as an action in which one person intentionally and unjustifiably causes the death of another human being. He quickly refutes this statement because that would leave out instances where killing is justified, such as when doctors do decide to not revive a patient because waking them would cause much pain.
Beauchamp also shows that there is no way to prove that one idea is morally better than the other when it comes to killing or allowing to die. It is true that sometimes killing can be morally wrong, such as when someone is murdered in cold blood. There are also times however, where allowing to die can be bad, such as if a doctor walked by someone that was lying on the ground bleeding to death but decided not to help