A patient could ask for a doctor’s opinion to have an injection that will cause a patient to fall a sleep then fall in to a coma and die. Although in England it is illegal and in many people have helped a loved one die and been taken to court and tried for murder for instance the following text has been article taken from the daily mirror in 2005 and was about a man who help his wife die.
‘A devoted husband who killed his dying wife of 50 years to spare her more suffering has been shown mercy. Retired nurse Donald Mawditt, seventy two, suffocated his wife Maureen, seventy, after she had begged him to release her from pain and misery of hearted and liver complaints.’
The above are cases of voluntary euthanasia there is another type known as compulsory a prime example of this was during world war two where Hitler’s Nazi regime would decide that certain groups of people for example Jews did not deserve to live so they were killed in gas chambers.
There are also others who believe euthanasia is all ways wrong a large number of these are from the Catholic Church. Where they believe life is sacred and comes from God therefore should be respected and that to take life is against God, there are may verses in the bible that could be seen as anti-euthanasia like the book of genesis were it says ‘god made us all in his image’ and the old testament were it also says ‘you create every part of me. You put met together in my mothers womb’ also one of the Ten Commandments is do not kill.
Some people may think the person who is ill should be made feel valued and that they are not a burden they also say that doctors and nurses do not have the right to take life.
They may also believe they will be judged on how they help the sick and that a person in desperate need of care could go to a hospice were they would be look after by professionals around the clock. Although many people do not choose this as when you are dying you want to be with the ones you love and a hospice limits the amount of time you have to do this.
So in relation to the question what is euthanasia I feel that it is death that the victim wants to happen no matter how you look at it.
