Euthanasia

A detailed Summary of Euthanasia

Euthanasia is the practice of ending a life painlessly so as to release an individual from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering with their agreement. Voluntary euthanasia involves a request by the dying patient or that person's legal representative to help him to die e.g. turning off the life support machine. Passive or negative euthanasia involves not doing something to prevent death, that is, allowing someone to die; active or positive euthanasia involves taking deliberate action to cause a death. In ancient Greece and Rome it was permissible in some situations to help others die. With the rise of organized religion, euthanasia became morally and ethically abhorrent. Following traditional religious principles, Western laws have generally considered the act of helping someone to die a form of homicide subject to legal sanctions. Even a passive withholding of help to prevent death has frequently been severely punished. Whether it is voluntary, passive or active euthanasia, it should not be supported or legalized in any country.

We are God's children. Only he can decide to take our life. It is not ours to take. Christianity, Judaism, Islam and many other religions hold human life sacred and condemn euthanasia in any form

. In the Bible for example, Jesus mentioned "Do not murder" many time such as in 'Mathew, Chapter 19, Verse 18.' Taking away someone's life is considered as murder in the understanding of religion. We have to remember that now this life is just a test for us. Patients may suffer severely now but when they die God will give them eternal life full of relaxation and no pain.

Some handicapped people say that they have no quality in life so they ask the doctors or relatives to carry euthanasia on them. However, many people with appalling physical handicaps have overcome them and lived essentially creative, dignified lives. Christy Brown a man born with cerebral palsy to a poor Dublin family is a source of shame, especially to his father, until one day, using his foot, he scrawls a message on the floor with a piece of chalk. The subsequent success of his paintings and writings gives him a voice no one imagined possible. He defeated his disability and became more famous than many people who are fully active and in perfect health. 'A great many severely handicapped people, and many parents of equally handicapped children, are alarmed at the growing acceptance of the mercy killing of handicapped babies.'

We conclude that euthanasia must not be legalized in any country because it is not morally or religiously accepted. It is not the right of any human being to take his life or any others because all the lives belong to one rightful owner, GOD.

Euthanasia advocates call euthanasia "Mercy Killing." Marilyn Carr is a severely handicapped woman whom managed to write with the only moving part of her body, her left foot. She stated once 'I'm writing this message with my left foot. I live a very full and active life, even though I am severely handicapped. I was severely handicapped when I was born. The kind of baby that is sometimes left to

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