Euthanasia
Euthanasia Euthanasia is defined as a gentle and easy death. In the twenty first century euthanasia is generally understood to mean bringing about of a good death-mercy killing, where one person ends the life of another person for the sake of the latter one. What differentiates euthanasia from most other forms of ending life is that euthanasia involves the deliberate taking of a person’s life first and second that life is taken for the sake of the person whose life is unbearable because of incurable or terminal diseases (qtd in Kuhse, 294). ... Considering these developments, the medical, ethical, social and religious aspects of euthanasia, I do not approve of the legalization of euthanasia (me). In the past, euthanasia is thought to be immoral because it was thought that human life is sacred. ... Judaism, Islam and Christianity, regarding the family life itself as sacred, developed ethical traditions that opposed suicide and euthanasia (Encyclopedia Americano, 711-712). However, there are some examples of euthanasia in the past. In 1935, German Nazi Party accepted euthanasia for crippled children and for useless and unrehabilitative patients or in the war time, soldiers who suffered from burns and wounds were killed by their friends or enemies, but the second example is a special situation (Kýyak, 76-77).