Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing for disaster before it occurs, disaster response (e.g., emergency evacuation, quarantine, mass decontamination, etc.), and supporting, and rebuilding society after natural or human-made disasters have occurred. In general, any Emergency management is the continuous process by which all individuals, groups, and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards. Actions taken depend in part on perceptions of risk of those exposed. Effective emergency management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement. Activities at each level
Emergency Management is one of a number of terms which, since the end of the Cold War, have largely replaced Civil defense, whose original focus was protecting civilians from military attack. The thinking today focuses on a more general intent to protect the civilian population in times of peace as well as in times of calamity.
What do think are we well prepared for the disasters to come now or in future and what we do? should we be faced by a situation like what happened in Haiti or in Chile? When they were struck by the earth-quakes? Are our governments prepared with the trained personnel and resources should such a disaster occur? And how stable are our new building that are mushroom everywhere everyday?
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Euthanasia
Why Euthanasia should not be legalized
Euthanasia also known as mercy killing is a way of painlessly terminating one’s life with the "humane" motive of ending his suffering and is mercy killing humane?
Mercy killing is morally incorrect and should be forbidden by law. It’s a homicide and murdering another human cannot be rationalized under any circumstances.
Human life deserves exceptional security and protection. Advanced medical technology has made it possible to enhance human life span and quality of life. Palliative care and rehabilitation centers are better alternatives to help disabled or patients approaching death live a pain-free and better life.
Family members influencing the patient’s decision into euthanasia for personal gains like wealth inheritance is another issue. You can’t be really sure if the decision towards assisted suicide is voluntary or forced by others.
Even doctors cannot predict firmly about period of death and whether there is a possibility of remission or recovery with other advanced treatments. So, implementing euthanasia would mean many unlawful deaths that could have well survived later. Legalizing euthanasia would be like empowering law abusers and increasing distrust of patients towards doctors.
Mercy killing would cause decline in medical care and cause victimization of the most vulnerable society. Would mercy killing transform itself from the "right to die" to "right to kill"?
Apart from the above reasons, there is a greater possibility of euthanasia being mishandled.
How would one assess whether a disorder of mental nature qualifies mercy killing? What if the pain threshold is below optimum and the patient perceives the circumstances to be not worthy of living? How would one know whether the wish to die is the result of unbalanced thought process or a logical decision in mentally ill patients? What if the individual chooses assisted suicide as an option and the family wouldn’t agree?
Legalizing euthanasia is like sentencing anybody sick a death penalty, which is inhuman and cruel. One should be given care until the last breath and let us not try to justify murder which is motivated by ill motive
Euthanasia also known as mercy killing is a way of painlessly terminating one’s life with the "humane" motive of ending his suffering and is mercy killing humane?
Mercy killing is morally incorrect and should be forbidden by law. It’s a homicide and murdering another human cannot be rationalized under any circumstances.
Human life deserves exceptional security and protection. Advanced medical technology has made it possible to enhance human life span and quality of life. Palliative care and rehabilitation centers are better alternatives to help disabled or patients approaching death live a pain-free and better life.
Family members influencing the patient’s decision into euthanasia for personal gains like wealth inheritance is another issue. You can’t be really sure if the decision towards assisted suicide is voluntary or forced by others.
Even doctors cannot predict firmly about period of death and whether there is a possibility of remission or recovery with other advanced treatments. So, implementing euthanasia would mean many unlawful deaths that could have well survived later. Legalizing euthanasia would be like empowering law abusers and increasing distrust of patients towards doctors.
Mercy killing would cause decline in medical care and cause victimization of the most vulnerable society. Would mercy killing transform itself from the "right to die" to "right to kill"?
Apart from the above reasons, there is a greater possibility of euthanasia being mishandled.
How would one assess whether a disorder of mental nature qualifies mercy killing? What if the pain threshold is below optimum and the patient perceives the circumstances to be not worthy of living? How would one know whether the wish to die is the result of unbalanced thought process or a logical decision in mentally ill patients? What if the individual chooses assisted suicide as an option and the family wouldn’t agree?
Legalizing euthanasia is like sentencing anybody sick a death penalty, which is inhuman and cruel. One should be given care until the last breath and let us not try to justify murder which is motivated by ill motive
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