There are two types of euthanasia, active and passive. Passive euthanasia is much more openly accepted, and even, to an extent, practiced. “The traditional distinction between active and passive euthanasia requires critical analysis. The conventional doctrine is that there is such an important moral d

members of juries found his actions to be compassionate and justified. “By realizing there are humane qualities in death, we can more easily accept man’s right to leave life” (Heifetz and Mangel 5). Euthanasia should receive more consideration, and legalizing it is a risk that potentially should be taken. In cases that involve the terminally ill who are suffering with no hope for improvement, the right to die should be a basic human right.

maintaining basically no quality of life. Active euthanasia, the scarier and more controversial of the two, could be defined as literally pulling the plug on someone’s life when they are terminally ill and suffering, such as administering a lethal injection. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal only in the Netherlands, and Belgium. Assisted suicide is legal in the United States, but only in the state of Oregon. The only difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia depends on who performs the act that causes death. With euthanasia, a doctor would administer the lethal injection, taking the final step to end the patient’s life. With assisted suicide, the patient would cause their own death, perhaps meaning that he or she would flick a switch to begin a fatal injection after the doctor had hooked them up to an IV, such as in the case with Dr. Kevorkian (2003).

his patients suffering a massive brain tumor. After the tumor was proved inoperable, and radiation was completely ineffective, the patient’s condition began rapidly deteriorating. He slipped into a coma, and was put on a respirator. After other extensive problems, and no progress, Dr. Peck didn’t feel that maintaining this man’s life was morally acceptable. The amount of levophed flowing into his veins through an IV had to be continuously increased in order to keep his blood pressure going. Dr. Peck personally decreased the level of levophed in order to let his patient die, rather than making him and his family hang on with no hope for improvement (Peck 12).

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