People in hospitals are suffering and their families also suffer from that. Hospitals are not cheap, especially when caring for a person who

In 1990, there was a case called Cruzan v. Missouri. The topic of the case started in 1983 when Nancy Beth Cruzan went into a coma from a car accident. Before the accident had occurred, she said that if she ever became non-responsive to life, she wouldn’t want to continue living. Her parents wanted to fulfill her request in 1987 when they went to court to force the hospital to discontinue her life support. Obviously, the court disallowed this action to occur, saying that there was no clear and convincing evidence Nancy Cruzan wanted to die. Despite the decision made in State court, they brought it up to the U.S. Supreme Court where they agreed. After presenting more proof and testimonies from people who had heard her talk about such actions to be performed to her, the court judge ruled that Cruzan's parents had the right to remove their daughter's feeding tube. This was an incident where the parents had the right to kill their child. Nancy made the decision for her parents to pull the plug even before she fell into a coma. Her parents just acted upon her wishes and did so promptly. A short while after this case had occurred; Congress passed the Patient Self-Determination Act. It requires health care facilities to inform new patients about their legal right to write a living will. Although this is an example of passive euthanasia, it raises the question on how it is different from active. Both require permission from the person in which it affects, so why is one legal in the other illegal?

Imagine yourself in a situation where you are on life support. You are fed through a tube which runs from a machine, through your mouth and down your throat. There are many machines running just to keep you alive. You know you will not live to see the next month because of the severity of the accident which has hospitalized you. It is painful for you to breathe or even move at all. Would you live for less than a month to spend the rest of your time in agony or have a painless death? The pain factor isn’t the only one to consider. There is also the financial factor. Since you are going to die, you will not be able to pay off the hospital fees. The financial burden you are putting on your loved ones will be great. Thousands of dollars were spent to keep you alive; countless amounts of medicine, nurse and doctor labor, and hospital fees all add up. Would you end your life so that you can rest in peace or live to pl

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