Euthanasia

Euthanasia What Is Euthanasia' By definition, euthanasia means “good death”, originated from the Greek-“eu”, meaning good and “thantos”, meaning death. It is generally defined as a method of causing a painless death to end suffering. There are three types of practices that are involved with euthanasia. The first one is voluntary, “active” euthanasia, where the person asks to be killed. This involves painlessly putting individuals to death for merciful reasons, as when a doctor administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient. The second practice that is involved with euthanasia is involuntary. This concerns the killing of persons who cannot express their wishes, because of immaturity (i.e. a newborn infant), mental retardation or coma. Here is it decided by others that that person would be better off dead. The third practice is passive euthanasia, where withdrawing some kind of medical support kills the patient and lets nature takes its course. For example this would include removing life support or stopping medical procedures which are unwanted. The Controversy of Euthanasia Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy within many societies, for some amount of time. In ancient Greece and Rome euthanasia was tolerated as long as the person received official permission euthanasia, death, pro-choice, passive, society, life, argument, people, because, supporters, right, own, one, medical, pro-life, need, dying, argue, support, suicide, movement, long, forms, debate, wrong, time, religious, reason, real, others, nature, killing, involuntary, form, even