Should Euthanasia be Legal Everywhere?
...hat people suffer from cancer or life threatening illnesses, and are put onto life support machines to help them, but would it not just put them through more pain and torture. If Euthanasia remains it can always be an alternative. The public was surveyed in 1996 and statistics show that 86% of the public agrees to Euthanasia in the case of an individual who has an incurable illness leaving the patient dependent on life support. There are two types of Euthanasia so a person has different options, Active and Passive Euthanasia. Active Euthanasia is the injection of a lethal drug to kill a person. Passive Euthanasia is when you withdraw life sustaining medical equipment. Both of these are options in a case where Euthanasia can be an alternative. Apart from these people suffering from the illness, there is a numerous amount of pain felt by relative. If a person who is terribly ill will seem like they have no soul and only a body remains. There is no way that, that person will ever be the same. It seems that there is no hope, and that is very tragic for the family to see a person that they love lingering on a painful life. This can possibly go on for months and nothing will change. This can be a hopeless situation for the patient and for their loved ones. Euthanasia can help by letting the family free of their pain and sorrow. It will also help the patient get purge of their pain. It is always terrible to talk about thes...