Euthanasia

Euthanasia The Right to Choose The main issues of euthanasia are maintaining the status of illegality, legalizing the procedure, and regulating the procedure. The controversy of euthanasia involves moral, ethical, and legal concerns. "In this country, according to a survey reported in the Journal of American Medical Association, nearly 63 percent of Americans favor legalizing physician-assisted suicide, yet most state statutes criminalize it (Stark, np)." People fear that if legalized, the choice to die will eventually be taken out of their hands and placed in the hands of people who will choose to kill select people based on their own private criteria. Maybe this is true, but it is doubtful. The issues are more realistic and involve our society's morals and the legal consequences of choice in dying. Currently, the debate involving the practice of euthanasia revolves around moral and legal issues. The moral debate involves religion and other societal beliefs. Everyone has their own morals and values, which is their God-given, inalienable right. In America, our society's morals are based in part on religious beliefs. Most religions, especially Christian religions, feel that taking another's life is wrong and against God's commandments. The Catholic church feels strongly about euthanasia and encourages euthanasia, states, right, legal, debate, issues, choose, united, suicide, procedure, physician-assisted, people, over, one, moral, life, die, cost, choice, both, without, supreme, status, society's, resolved, religions, person, own, morals, maybe, main, legalizing, legalized, issue, involves, hands, fear, dying, decide, currently, court, course, controversy, constitutional, catholic, beliefs, based, about, yet, wrong, win