Euthanasia
... The demands for assisted suicide and euthanasia are increasing as our society advances. ... Although neither assisted suicide or euthanasia are legal, many people believe they should be. ... More particular, are euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide morally justifiable? Euthanasia involves a death that is intended to benefit the person who dies, and requires a final act by some other person, for example, a doctor. ... In this case legalization of euthanasia is viable, if you respect the persons ability to make their life decisions. ... The arguments against making euthanasia legal, center on two points. ... I would hope that allowing euthanasia would not lead to abuse, but I feel that acceptance of it could help those who really need it. ... One position opposes cases of "active" euthanasia, where an active, or overt, effort is made to bring about death, such as in administering a lethal injection, but accept "passive" euthanasia, which is generally described as declining to initiate extraordinary or even ordinary medical treatment, as moral. Another position advocates that passive euthanasia is acceptable when the person to die has consented. ... Conversely, even with this gradation, some opponents to euthanasia believe that voluntary, passive euthanasia is the same as suicide; involuntary euthanasia is considered to be murder.