Murder or saviour? You be the judge.

 Euthanasia is most commonly known as assisted suicide. There are many different types of euthanasia that most people aren't aware of. Active vs passive and voluntary vs non-voluntary.

Active euthanasia- medical proffessionals, or another person, deliberately does something that causes the patient to die.

•  using a poison to end ones life that is terminally ill which is usually an overdoes on pain killer or sleeping pills

Passive euthanasia-  disconnecting any type of treatment a patient has

• For example: switching off life support, disconnecting feeding tube, not following through with a life extending operation or receiving any drugs.

Voluntary euthanasia- the patient is aware of the situation and wishes to die rather than follow through with treatment

• For example: asks help with dying, refuses to eat, deciding to die rather than have their illness kill them or refusing medical treatment.

Non-voluntary euthanasia- the patient is unaware or cannot make the decision for themself

•  patient is either too young (infant), in a coma, senile, mentally retarded or has severe brain damage

Dr. Jack Kevorkian also known as Dr. Death

Dr. Kevorkian gave many the option for Assisted Suicide that relates to Euthanasia but allows the patient to decide. He either injected poison into their arm or used a gas by having the patient that wished to die push a button for the toxins to be released into them. He helped over 130 people to commit suicide in a fast and painful way. Many say that it's wrong and against religion to be "playing God". Many others believe we have the right to make decisions for ourselves and if we as humans have a right to life, we also have a right to die. You be the judge.

 Many people(pro-life) are against any type of euthanasia and that "nature should take its course" rather than helping someone pass that is terminally ill or a horrible accident that has left the patient in a coma. On the other hand many people are strongly for euthanasia and would rather put people out of their misery rather than having then live longer and just suffer. Euthanasia is a serious topic in the medical field and at any given time you yourself could potentially be in a situation that euthanasia (assisted suicide) is an option. 

Some questions to think about-

• If you were unaware and couldn't make the decision for yourself do you think you would want to just die or be a "bed vegetable" wasting medicine that could potentially save someone else life?  
• Some people view any type of euthanasia as murder, but put yourself in a situation for example a terminal illness that is only painful to you and only have so long to live. Why waste medicine that doesn't help you when you can be asked to be put out of your misery. If you could, would you?