Euthanasia is a rejection of the importance and value of a human life. Some people see euthanasia as an act of self defense. Those people who think that support euthanasia most of the time. When you kill for self defense you are saving an innocent life, either their own life or someone else’s. In this situation no one’s life is being saved but only lives are lost. (Euthanasia)
The human race looks back on history to avoid making the same mistakes twice. Slavery was one of the most cruel and brutal things ever to be done. There is no difference from slavery to euthanasia in how wrong it is. This is why for thousands of years almost all societies, even non-religious ones made euthanasia a crime. What makes people think they are smarter than the millions of people before who outlawed such a thing?
When you talk about euthanasia there are two specific groups. Active euthanasia is when you take specific steps to cause a person’s death. Also, there is passive euthanasia which is the withdrawing of medical treatment, deliberately causing death. The main difference is that active means something is being done to end the person’s life, and passive is when something is not done to help the person who is being killed. Active euthanasia is usually caused by lethal injection to kill. Passive euthanasia is mostly from withdrawing medicine and other forms of treatment meant to keep someone alive. The problem with this type of euthanasia is that the death is almost always directly caused by a physician. This puts medical care personnel in a lot of jeopardy. A simple euthanasia procedure soon becomes homicide (Singer).
When you talk about euthanasia there are two specific groups. Active euthanasia is when you take specific steps to cause a person’s death. Also, there is passive euthanasia which is the withdrawing of medical treatment, deliberately causing death. The main difference is that active means something is being done to end the person’s life, and passive is when something is not done to help the person who is being killed. Active euthanasia is usually caused by lethal injection to kill. Passive euthanasia is mostly from withdrawing medicine and other forms of treatment meant to keep someone alive. The problem with this type of euthanasia is that the death is almost always directly caused by a physician. This puts medical care personnel in a lot of jeopardy. A simple euthanasia procedure soon becomes homicide (Singer).
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