Euthanasia

“Euthanasia: The Right to Die” What does life hold for a person living only by the technology of a life support machine? When the potential for desirable, meaningful life has been exhausted and every effort made to prevent the inevitable, it should be legally possible to show mercy to those requesting euthanasia. There are many reasons for this. Someone lying on a hospital bed, waiting for the end, may desperately want to commit suicide but …

…the reason why we are not humane enough to grant the terminally ill the permission to die? Simply put, euthanasia should be made legal. There are too many reasons for it no to be. Whether it be for those who are physically unable to commit suicide themselves, the penalties to family and doctors, or the compassion and sympathy shown by assisted suicide. People have a right to live. They also have a right to die.