Why Is Euthanasia Ethically Wrong

Thousands of people around the world suffer illnesses that are unbearable and cause great deal of pain. Should those people have to go trough all the pain or should they have a choice of how they die? Should those people have a right to assisted suicide and Euthanasia? And if so, how does it affect the whole society. Before I can try to answer those question I need to explain euthanasia and assisted suicide, ethical issues and explain my moral issue with this case. The word Euthanasia is a greek word and eu means good and Thanatos means death. Euthanasia is the deliberate act undertaken by one person with the intention of ending the life of another person in order to relieve that person’s suffering. There are several types of euthanasia: voluntary, involuntary, active and inactive euthanasia. When a patient is given informed consent to a harmful injection, the term voluntary euthanasia is used; when they have not done so, it is indicated as involuntary euthanasia. Active euthanasia occurs when someone performs an action that results in the death of the patient. Thus, one understands stands active euthanasia positively as the commission of a death-inducing inducing action. Passive euthanasia occurs when …show more content…
Assisted suicide has the same goal as euthanasia: causing the death of a person. The distinction resides in how that end is achieved. In Assisted suicide, a physician, at the request of a patient, prescribes a harmful quantity of medication, intending that the patient will use the chemicals to commit suicide. In assisted suicide, the person takes the death-inducing product; in euthanasia, another individual administers it. In both cases goal is self- willed deaths. The former is self-willed and self-inflicted; the latter is self-willed and other-inflicted. Although the means vary, the intention to cause death is present in both