Euthanasia

Euthanasia Within the parameter of my paper I will discuss the history of euthanasia and the legislation that has taken place in the past and more current legislative provisions including the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. There are many different types of euthanasia including active, passive, voluntary and involuntary. I will discuss physician-assisted suicides, which can take and active or passive form. Opponents and their views will be looked at, along with reasoning behind these views. I will focus on court cases of doctor Jack Kevorkian and his reasoning behind euthanasia. I will point out how the state of Oregon supports their doctors in practices of euthanasia while Michigan has created laws specifically to criminalize the performing of euthanasia because of Kevorkian. I will conclude with the legislation in the Netherlands on euthanasia being the first country to legalize it, and look into whether the United States will follow. The reason I chose euthanasia as a topic for this paper is because of the controversy over it. I wanted to learn the viewpoints of the opponents and the supporters to understand more clearly what euthanasia actually meant. Also, with the baby boomer euthanasia, death, patients, care, states, patient, oregon, life, kevorkian, suicide, physicians, physician, medical, united, cases, dying, dignity, assisted, should, pain, legislation, active, urofsky, suicides, law, kevorkian’s, health, die, terminally, take, physician-assisted, person, passive, opponents, one, must, michigan, ill, bill, three, since, right, passed, made, lethal, including, first, ezekiel, disease, country