meaning of death

The Meaning of Death

In 2002 on January first, the government of Netherlands legalized mercy killing. This astounding news quickly spread around the world. This brought the ethical argument of euthanasia to the public spotlight again. People are separated by roughly two different positional stances; one is a pro-euthanasia position and the other is an anti-euthanasia position. The pro-euthanasia defenders argued that the deed respected patientsf right of free choice to their own death. The pro-euthanasia defenders also declared that euthanasia was the only way to release the horrible chronic pain complicated by some incurable diseases. If there were only a painful death in their future, they would rather choose to let these patients die peacefully by medical technique. However, I am taking the stance of anti-euthanasia, because even though euthanasia may sound merciful, but emotionally unstable and tend to be temporary and hasty. For instance, most of the cases, which patients who...