Whereas passive euthanasia is when the patient has been withdrawn from the substances they need in order to remain alive for example, medication or water. This type of euthanasia allows the patient's body to take a natural cause. Voluntary euthanasia is when a person decides that they no longer wish to live and are in a position to decide that they are ready to die and they ask someone to perform an act of euthanasia on them. However non voluntary euthanasia is when the person in question , is not capable of making a decision, commonly the family decides what the patient would have wanted if they were able to make a decision, on living or euthanasia .
For Kant there are only two options in the way a human being actions can represent themselves which are right or wrong. There is no exception for anything in nothing in between. Whether the reasoning behind an individual's wrong actions are for the 'benefit' for someone else, they have still committed a wrong deed and no justification can lessen the damage the individual has caused. Kant's moral theory consists of two imperatives the first one is hypothetical imperative where a person works towards their goals and ambitions where they have personal choice for their desires. For this essay the second imperative is more relevant, this is the categorical imperative, according to Kant every individual consists of this imperative all the time, before making any small or big decisions. This imperative is much like guidance for an individual to make rational choices and morally the right decision.
According to Kant, a person who takes the liberty to take control of their own or another individuals life acts in violation to the moral law, Kant argued that euthanasia is an unnatural act. Also that killing ourselves just for the reason being that our body is not what it used to be is wrong. A Kant maxim is a rule that what rational human beings should live by in order to live a good moral life.
