Artificial Life or Natural Death

Artificial Life or Natural Death?

People do not like death and do not want to hear about it; however, death is the end of each and every living thing on earth. We always ask why good things come to an end? For some of us the end is good thing. We all know that euthanasia is to end the life of a suffering person in order to liberate him from his misery. Some are for this act and a lot are against it. Euthanasia is a Greek word which means “good death”, by definition, it is deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering. Traditional thinking on euthanasia distinguishes between “passive and active” euthanasia. The active one, is when treatment is not a solution any more, the patient is living and breathing thru machines. Conversely, the passive one is which a doctor intentionally causes death by administering a lethal dose of medication. Should we legalize euthanasia and therefore consider it as a good thing? Or should we consider it as a crime and agree with those who believe that only god is allowed to. In my opinion, whatever the name of this case is, it is in fact, killing people. Euthanasia should be banned and people should be against it.

First of all, religion and law are against euthanasia. No one has the right to kill a life, a heart beating or a soul in a body. Whatever the case is, only God has the right to take lives away. Each person who thinks, helps, or works on stopping a life, is a killer and should go directly to prison. As Christians, we always refer to Jesus in our lives and especially when we have problems or when we are suffering. Therefore, euthanasia is against religion. In his ten commandments, God told us: “Thou shalt not kill”. Referring to the questionnaire done by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on our moral obligations to patients, who exist in what has come to be called a "persistent vegetative state”, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the...