Euthanasia
...eeding up their death process. Usually this direct action is done by lethal injection. Rachels' argument in my eyes is that a person should have the right to die if death is in the near future and I would have to agree with the points he has been making one-hundred percent. Life can be extremely hard and painful for people with severe illnesses. If a person does not want to continue life, I believe ultimately that it is a person’s own right to choose on whether they want to continue their fight with their illness. In the second article I looked at from the text, I took an opposing view from Rachel and looked at the article, “The Intentional Termination of Life”, written by Bonnie Steinbock. A woman who strongly disagrees with the view points of James Rachels. She states that there is a moral difference between active and passive euthanasia. This is his biggest mistake is that there is no difference between intentionally killing and intentionally letting someone die (Steinbock 193). It is known that an adult has the right to refuse treatment, even when the treatment is necessary for this person to live. Now is this a form of voluntary euthanasia? Many people consider this to indeed be a form of voluntary euthanasia including me. If a person is refusing treatment when they already know they are going to die they are just prolonging the obvious. This person wants to die and get the suffering and pain over. This in Steinbeck’s view is wrong. She feels that as long as a patient is seeing positive results with their medical treatment he or she should continue it. I can see the argument she is making and indeed is a strong one opposing Rachels. The next way to take a further look into this topic would is to take a look at some statistics that text offers. “In one study, 36 percent of the doctors said they would write lethal prescriptions if they were legal, and 24 percent that they would go even further and administer lethal injections”(White 184). Another study which was found in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found out in telephone interviews from 355 oncologists that six-teen percent had participated in euthanasia acts. So the truth is out their. Euthanasia whether it may be active or passive is happening. In “Justifying Voluntary Euthanasia” by Peter Singer, he goes into depth on the man that was not afraid to let the public know what he was doing. Doctor Jack Kevorkian, a man responsible tons of deaths by use way of active euthanasia. Kevorkian took euthanasia a huge step further when he built himself a suicide machine for people who no longer wanted to go on with their lives. He claims that he was only helping people do...