Respect for life: Euthanasia, with Case Study.

Euthanasia is defined as the act of bringing about the easy and gentle death of a person, usually someone who is terminally ill or in great pain. Euthanasia is illegal in the United Kingdom but it was legalised in certain circumstances in the Netherlands in 1994 and in some parts of Australia in 1997. A society called EXIT (also known as The Voluntary Euthanasia Society) is trying to get the law on euthanasia changed. They "support the …

…to die sooner than he had to. He mentions that he is in pain a lot of the time, and that he has diabetes. But he is still healthy enough to not even be in hospital, as he lives with his daughter and her family. I think that the only cases that euthanasia should be considered ok, is when the patient is relying on something to keep them alive, such as a life support machine.