In essence, there are three “practices” that are involved with Euthanasia. The first one is voluntary euthanasia, where the person suffering from the illness asks to be killed and that involves painlessly putting individuals to death for merc

Patients that are terminally and hopelessly ill are not the only ones suffering. Their family members suffer because of constant pain, suffering, and misery that their loved one feels due to the disease or the condition that they are in. Loved ones in this position, out of affection would most likely want to end the patients suffering and also out of the financial burdens that they carry to keep their loved one alive. Family members “may be sensitive to the costs accumulating during terminal care” (Hagen 91)

Pro-lifers argue that if there was the legalization of Euthanasia, it would be just like another form of legalizing murder and it would open the door to abuse, allowing a way to kill unwanted people. They say that under the Hippocratic Oath, physicians have no right to kill their patients they are supposed to save lives and not use what they have learned to kill others. “Any assistance on the part of the doctor in hastening a patient’s death is in violation of the ethics and tradition of the medical profession.” (Humphry 197)

It is a common practice that veterinarians put aged, or suffering animals to sleep with a lethal injection, but why is it not appropriate for humans to have the same practice? Euthanasia was an accepted practice in earlier civilizations. It was considered legally and morally to be a permissible way to die. In ancient Greece and Rome helping others die or putting them to death was considered permissible in some situations. Voluntary euthanasia for the elderly was an approved custom in several ancient societies also.

One would not like to be strapped to their bed for the rest of their life that would defeat the meaning of life. People, who maybe because of a serious illness, are extremely depressed partly because they want to live their lives, but know that they are not capable of such an activity. Since they recognize that enjoying life in those ways is no longer possible, they may want an easy way out—Euthanasia. Others simply do not want to sustain suffering. “Everybody has different amounts of pain and suffering that he/she can tolerate.” (Behnke 17).

In the United States, it is illegal to practice euthanasia and only one out of the 50 states have legalized allowing physicians to actively assist suicides to patients who wish to die and that state is Oregon. “Physician-assisted suicide has arrived, and Oregon has legalized it.” (Hum

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