mostly because they feel that, we as free individuals, have the right to decide for ourselves whether or not to terminate someone's life. The

stronger and more widely held opinion is against Euthanasia primarily

because society feels that it is god's task to determine when one of

his creation's time has come, and we as human beings are in no position

to behave as god and end someone's life. When humans take it upon

themselves to shorten their lives or to have others to do it for them

by withdrawing a life-sustaining apparatus, they play god. They usurp

the divine function, and interfere with the divine plan.

Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death

persons who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or

handicaps. It come from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is

commonly called mercy killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when

incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put

them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to

withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical

profession contend that too often doctors play god o

treatments. These economic concerns already exert pressure to accept

developed treatments. Earlier acceptance of euthanasia might well have

to death a great many patients who do not wish to die.

in the last weeks and months of their lives. Already in Britain, There

It ruled that Elizabeth Bouvia, a cerebral palsy victim, had

her privacy rights under the US and California constitutions. This was

death. But an appellate court in California, USA, has gone one controversial

Brock, Dan. Deciding For Others. Cambridge: Cambridge University

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