his creations 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 life-sustaining apparatus, they play God. They usurp the divine function, and interfere with the divine plan

Euthanasia is defined by the Britannica Encyclopedia as "the action of killing an individual for reasons considered to be merciful"( www.Britannica.com).It is derived from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy killing. (Jonsen, 12) 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 conte

nd that too often doctors play God on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.

As individuals and as a society, we have the positive

Aristotle is essentially telling his readers the basic function of doctors. This function is rather obvious, their main objective is to be health care providers. It would be contrary to their nature to go against this principle.

The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine in the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today, it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering

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