Euthanasia

Good Life...Good Death

Euthanasia. I've been hearing about this subject alot since a couple of days ago, no...even since a couple a weeks ago from television. It has not been a popular subject amongs people, since our government have law against euthanasia.

The subject about euthanasia has been brought upon as a contraversy since I was living in Australia. I remembered watching 60 minutes about how an old lady wanted to end her life because she was in a great pain, and she cannot go on with the suffering. Therefore, she asked for a doctor mercy to end her life. She was about 60 years old, had a breast cancer and been living in a hospital for nearly 2 years. If I'm not mistaken, Australian government ruled against it, as they see euthanasia is a medical word of "mercy killing". Thus, the old lady eventually died not from euthanasia, but from all the pain she is experienced.

Let us reflect to what is exactly the meaning of Euthanasia.

According to my research from http://www.knowdeep.org/euthanasia/. Euthanasia is mercy killing, or intentionally ending the life of someone who is hopelessly sick or injured in order to save them from suffering. Euthanasia meant an easy death without severe suffering in ancient times. Sometimes decisions to stop a treatment like dialysis or breathing machine are also called euthanasia, but they really are not. There is a real difference between a patient refusing a treatment and a patient requesting to be killed.

Is this true?

Most cases of euthanasia involved elderly person and person's who likely to suffered brain damaged. It is interesting to note how often the right-to-live campaign versus the right-to-die campaign has been dramatized through higher authority such legal ruling from High Court. In some country like Netherland, their Government has ruled the Practice of Euthanasia. Euthanasia in the Netherlands has gone from requiring terminal illness to no physical illness at all, from physical suffering to depression only, from conscious patients to unconscious, from those who can consent to those who cannot, and from being a measure of last resort to one of early intervention. (http://catholiceducation.org/articles/euthanasia/eu0014.html)

However, dispite my own opinion reflecting this subject, shall one obey God and let one die a natural death?

~ki~