Euthanasia

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war, and suicide.
The issue of “assisted suicide” has been the subject of intense national debate. In June 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases challenging the legality of state bans on “assisted suicide”. In both cases the Court found that there was no constitutional right to assisted suicide and turned the matter to states to decide whether to ban or legalize assisted suicide. The use of in the Netherlands was first permitted in 1973. Currently, the state of Oregon is the only state to permit physician-assisted suicide in limited circumstances. Although is widely practiced in the Netherlands, it remains technically illegal.
There are actively several different kinds of . First, passive is popularly known as “pulling the plug”. This is the disconnection of life-support (death-support) equipment. There is unlikely to be much legal or ethical trouble here, so long as you have signed a Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care; ...

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allowed a “natural death” instead of a prolonged death with medical equipment. Still another reason is that doctors are supposed to ease the pain of people-not prolong it.
In addition, people vary greatly in their views on what makes life meaningful, at what point life is no longer worth living, and how death should occur. As Ronald Dworkin stated in the following viewpoint, “Consequently, while an athlete might find life as a quadriplegic worthless, an intellectual might find the same existence manageable and fulfilling. Similarly, some people view death as preferable to life in a vegetative state, while others believe that even permanently unconscious persons should be kept ...

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