Assisted_Suicide

Assisted Suicide Assisted suicide, also called euthanasia (originated from the Greek, eu, meaning “good, and thanatos, meaning “death”)( No Author, http:// www.religious tolerance.org), is the act of assisting a person who wants to die. That person may want to die for a multitude of reasons, be it because of a terminal illness, extreme pain and suffering, or because of an illness that will leave the person with some extremely diminished capacity. This topic has become one of great controversy as of late, with the prevalence of the HIV virus, the virus that causes AIDS, as well as the increase of debilitating diseases like Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease. This paper will touch on many points of the issue of euthanasia, as well as a defender of it. At the end of this paper, it will be plain to see by any open-minded individual that euthanasia should be legal. There are several forms of euthanasia. First, there is voluntary (or active) euthanasia. This means that a competent person makes a voluntary request, without changing their mind, to be helped to die. A popular example of voluntary euthanasia was the assisted killing of a patient with ALS by Dr. Jack Kevorkian in 1998. Dr. Kevorkian’s euthanasia, patient, people, dr, author, kevorkian, life, death, person, diseases, die, suffering, issue, decide, church, time, support, state, should, paper, medical, http//wwwreligioustoleranceorg, assisted, way, suicide, seems, pain, one, jack, finally, dying, disease, agree, voluntary, very