Euthanasia

Euthanasia is the practice of mercifully ending a
person’s life in order to free them from a disease that has
no cure, unbearable suffering, or shameful death. The Greek
meaning of euthanasia is “good death”.
There are a few different types of euthanasia. Active
euthanasia is putting someone to death for sympathetic
reasons, like when a doctor administers a lethal dose of
medication to a patient. Passive euthanasia involves not
doing something to prevent a patient from dying, as when
doctors refrain from using an artificial respirator to keep
a terminally ill patient alive. Voluntary euthanasia is when
a person asks to die. Nonvoluntary euthanasia is to end the
life of a person who is not capable of making a request to
die.
Assisted suicide is when someone gives information,
guidance, and the means to a person to enable them to take
their own life.
Euthanasia has been around in some form for centuries.
In ancient Greece and Rome helping othe...