Life/Death Issues (Research) ; Euthanasia

WHAT IS EUTHANASIA?
http://www.euthanasia.com/argumentsagainsteuthanasia.html

It is the INTENTIONAL killing to a dependant human being supposedly for his/her benefit. There are two kinds, active and passive euthanasia. Active euthanasia involves the direct causing a person’s death either by a lethal injection or “pulling the pluck”. While passive euthanasia is purposely not giving the necessities to a patient in order to kill him/her. Any medical action that does not intend to take the life of the patient, it will not be considered euthanasia.

AGAINST:
- Euthanasia activists say it is for the terminally ill BUT it is hard to define the term “terminally-ill” and now it is used on people who are not under that classification too.
- It is the rejection of importance and value of human life
- It can become a means of cost containment in the medical industry. Comparing to resources needed to cure a person, euthanasia is a much cheaper alternative.
- Currently, you have to sign the AMD to agree to go through euthanasia when needed but it is feared that euthanasia might become involuntary. As things will be different once it is made legal.
- Simply, humans should not play God. It can never be predicted for sure when is the patient going to die. There might even be a cure that will be developed in time to come?
- It is not foolproof that the person who is approving to euthanasia is in the right state of mind.

FOR:
- A person who is going to die in immediate future has the choice to deny treatment and die, as operating against a will of a person is not right.
- Patient is already unable to think for himself, living in that kind of state will not be any better than dying. It is helping the patient to relieve his pain at the same time.
- Patients should have the right to die with dignity, as euthanasia offers.

For graphs and charts on Euthanasia statistics: http://www.euthanasia.com/charts.html