Euthanasia

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Euthanasia: Should it be Legalized?
A few years ago, there was a young woman who had been in a coma for years. The husband of this woman finally decided it was time for her to go. But her parents thought that since she was still breathing, she was still ‘with us’. But the doctors confronted them, saying that the young woman may never come out of the coma. And they had full permission from the government to let her go if all the family members agreed on it. But the family refused to have their daughter ‘murdered’ and said that she stays hooked up, and she will awake. After months of trying to get the parents to except it, let her move on, and having many hearts to heart with the husband, with a very heavy heart, they finally turn off her machines. This is an example of one of the many kinds of euthanasia. It does, like most things in life, have its good parts and it’s bad. But what we haven’t decided yet is, are we ready for euthanasia to be legalized?
Euthanasia has been looked at in numerous ways. The meaning has been altered and twisted in some peoples minds, and all they can think about when the word euthanasia comes up is, a depressed person asking help in committing suicide or killing people because they serve no purpose in life. .” In ancient times, euthanasia meant an ‘easy death’ without suffering. In today’s society, euthanasia defined as the “[…] mercy [of] killing, or intentionally ending the life of someone who is hopelessly sick or injured in order to save them from suffering”(3).
There 3 specific types of euthanasia, voluntary, non-voluntary, and involuntary euthanasia. Within each of these three, there are two categories, passive euthanasia, which refers to removing or withholding treatment that is critical to keep a person alive, and active euthanasia, which refers to someone actually administering a drug or performing an action that causes death. Some examples of passive euthanasia woul...