Is it ethical for physicians to recommend passive euthanasia for a patient who is mentally incompetent to make his own decisions? A developmentally disabled patient has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. The patient has no family, and is under public guardianship. The public guardian wil...

Assisted Suicide Most people want to live their life with dignity and die with dignity. People live their life the way they choose to. They make important choices and decisions all through their life. Some of these decisions are very difficult, life changing decisions. We live in a democratic so...

Euthanasia is the Individual's Right In recent years, Euthanasia has become a very heated debate. It is a Greek word that means "easy death" but the controversy surrounding it is just the opposite. Whether the issue is refusing prolonged life mechanically, assisting suicide, or active eutha...

Imagine you had a daughter who was in a horrible car accident. The only way she was able to stay alive was through being force - fed through a surgically implanted gastrostomy tube. She was oblivious to all her surroundings except reflexive responses to sound...

Euthanasia in the United States Every year two million people die in North America. Chronic illness, such as cancer or heart disease, accounts for two of every three deaths. It is estimated that approximately seventy percent of these people die after a decision is made to forgo life-sustaining t...