Right To Kill Vs Right To Save

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en doctors and patients, and concepts of basic morality. There are several types of euthanasia and one must define them in order to avoid confusion. Passive euthanasia is the process of hastening the death of a person by withdrawing some form of support and letting nature take its course. Such a act would include removing life-support equipment, stopping medical procedures, stopping food and water and allowing the person to die.
I recently had a very close friend loose two family members, they were in a car accident the mother was killed instantly, and the father was in a coma. Their two children were in the car and the were not injured, the father was flown to a hospital in Abilene, TX, and the rest of his family was left to make the decision of what to do. Doctors said that even if he did come out of his coma that he would most likely be a vegetable. After a week the family decided to take him off life support and this caused him to die. A couple days before they made the decision I was talking with the family, one of the family, and asked how they perceived the decision they were faced with, because I thought if it were me I would just keep waiting for a miracle. But the family told me that they knew the father well enough that he would not want to live as a vegetable anyways and it was to stressful to have to be worrying about him all the time. Another reason was the money, it would cost a lot of money to keep him on life support, and if it wasn’t for a hopeful reason then it was basically pointless. I honestly don’t know how I would handle the situation if it were me, but I do know that I could never judge someone or hold them in a bad light for making a decision like this.
Active euthanasia involves causing the death of a person through a direct action in response to request from that person. This is also called mercy killing. Physician assisted suicide is the process of a physician supplying information and or the means ...