The Controversy of Euthanasia

God created the world in six days. The first five days he created the sky, land and vegetation, the sun, moon and stars, the sea, animals that move along the ground. On the sixth day he created man in his won image. He saw that all this was good and on the seventh day he rested. God gave us life and he worked hard to give us all the things we need to live. He even gave his only son so that if we believe we will have eternal life. This is why the controversy of Euthanasia is skyrocketing in the United States. It has created mass confusion among Americans due to the strong arguments those for and against it propose, which leaves those undecided in turmoil.

WHAT IS EUTHANASIA?

Euthanasia is the practice of mercifully ending a person's life to release the person from an incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. The word Euthanasia originated from the Greek language, with the prefix eu meaning "good" and the suffix thanatos meaning "death". It originally referred to intentional mercy killing. When medical advances made prolonging the lives of dying or comatose patients possible, the term Euthanasia was also applied to a lack of action to prevent death. There are a number of vaguely related terms such as Passive Euthanasia, Active Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide and Involuntary Euthanasia.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian was found guilty of 2nd degree murder in 1999 for the mercy killing of a patient with ALS in 1998.

PASSIVE EUTHANASIA

Passive Euthanasia is causing the death of a person by altering some form of support and letting nature take it's course. For example:
- Removing life support equipment
- Stopping medical procedures and medications, etc.
- Stopping food and water and allowing the person to dehydrate or starve to death
- Not delivering CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) and allowing a person, whose heart has stopped, to die