THE REASON WHY I SUPPORT EUTHANASIA
             She runs on the ocean's shore after a bright red Frisbee. The waves are breaking on her four legs, the wind is blowing on her long ears, and the sun warms her back. She is full of life, expressing happiness and joy on every strand of golden hair. She then returns, the red Frisbee covered with sand and drool, her eyes are shinning; she is happy.
             Now she can barely stand up to eat. She can't run along the oceans shore, feeling the wind. Now she is cold, the sun no longer warms her back, and the red Frisbee remains so very clean. I walk towards her and see her dull eyes. They are telling me something, I study them and later realize what she is trying to tell me. She is telling me that she is sick, she is asking me for help. I take her to the veterinarian. He takes my hand, and tells me that she's got very advanced cancer, she is going to die.
             Euthanasia is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the "act or method of causing death painlessly, so as to end suffering." (469) In this moment, I need to take that difficult decision, not with my own life, but with my pet's life. She is suffering from cancer, which will get worse in a matter of time making her feel sicker every day. There is no cure, so she will die anyway. I've decided to put an end to her life before all her suffering begins. This is not only better for her, its also better for my family because we wont have to see her suffer.
             I wish I knew that the decision being taken is the right one. I believe that when a person, or in this case my pet, is suffering from a terminal disease, he/she has the right to rest in peace without suffering. There have been many cases in which a person is lying on a hospital's hard bed, spending the last days of his/her life inside a cold room surrounded by strange people, instead of spending the last days o
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