Euthanasia is the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy. It's really like actually taking the life of someone who is extremely ill and in pain. There are different types of euthanasia such as,
voluntary,
involuntary,
non-voluntary,
active and
passive. Active euthanasia is often called "mercy killing" because you are literally killing someone when there are others ways to relieve the pain that there in. There have been many advances in pain management such as,
hospices and
palliative care. It is usually considered a criminal homicide but voluntary and passive are non-criminal. It's just non-ethical to kill someone when there are other ways to keep them alive. It also goes against the doctor's
hippocratic oath which every doctor must sign. It's just like a murder because someone else is doing it, you're not actually committing suicide yourself. It lets doctors and families just give up on the patient's recovery much too early, what if the very next day someone found a cure for their illness? I just feel that euthanasia is morally wrong and should be illegal.
