Shockingly, if someone helps a person to commit suicide it would be a criminal offense, yet and still if that same person commits suicide by himself then it's not considered a crime. That would be a result of euthanasia. Euthanasia first appeared on the scene of the U.S. in 1906, when the first bill was drafted. "During the 1950s, new attitudes, ideas, and medical technology would combine in the 1960s to alter the cultural landscape fundamentally....Disease, death, and dying quickly became some of the most consistently discussed and debated subjects in the U.S. public life. A new openness about euthanasia made it easier for advocates to broach the subject as a humane policy reform" (Dowbiggin 96). Euthanasia's role in society has changed drastically much so due to its unlimited resources of procedure. Even so with the progression of euthanasia overtime, the idea of legalizing euthanasia is still very controversial.
             Within the modern day and age, euthanasia is defined to be general help with causing death in the most humane way. Although when it was first introduced, most people often referred to it as a means of killing someone suddenly without their consent, or rather "to pull the plug" so to speak. This is a large misconception that originated during the era of Hitler. By brutally committing a mass murder and calling them mercy killings, linked with "the euthanasia program" Hitler and his followers gave euthanasia a bad name (Humphry 7). Because he misused the term so long ago, many refer back to the situation and think of its definition (a good death) and frown upon it.
             As of November of year 2003 Netherlands was the first country to permit mercy killing for terminally ill people who are desperate to die. "According to a 1991 report, Dutch doctors perform euthanasia at a patients request some 2,300 times a year. They also end the lives of some 1,000 patients unable to...