Euthanasia

An eighty year old man sits in his wheelchair at a nursing home, he is wearing an old pajama top and a diaper that is covered only by the lap blanket that he has over his legs. He is also on Oxygen and because of that he is confined to his room until the aids can help him. It has been 10 years now that he has been in the wheelchair and on Oxygen and 10 years …

…should of let him die. [Robert M. Baird: Euthanasia The Moral Issues] To require that a person be kept alive against his will and to deny his pleas for merciful release after the dignity, beauty, promise and meaning of life have vanishd, when he can only linger on in stages of agony or decay, is cruel and barbarous. The imposition of unneassary suffering is an evil that should be avoided by civilized society. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**