We have all seen or heard stories about people wanting to end their lives due to extreme pain and suffering. Sometimes in the heat of war, soldiers, blown apart by land mines or bullets, ask for someone to just put them out of their misery. Since they know they will be dying very shortly, they would rather skip the extreme pain and suffering and go out as fast as possible. But what if that person is not under extreme pain at the time? Suppose a man is told by his physician that he has a rare disease and that he will slowly deteriorate over the course of three months, eventually leading to death by the end of the third month. That man can go about for the rest of his time on this earth and live his life to the fullest he can, yet he decides that all is lost and that there is no point in living if there is not much time left here on earth, so he seeks physician-assisted suicide. Is it any more right for a soldier to put a fellow soldier out of his misery in mercy killing t!
             han it is for a physician to put down a patient that is still well? Euthanasia is a challenging topic to cover with so many different types of situations. In some situations it may be the worst possible solution, yet in other situations it very well may be the best possible solution. With euthanasia, each situation is very different and we should not generalize all cases to mercy killing or murder, which is why if this country were to legalize euthanasia, it should have strict codes of conduct and review each case thoroughly.
             In the case of the soldier who has just been blown apart, imagine if you were that soldier in the middle of fierce warfare. All four limbs are missing, sections of your entrails are coming out of the hole in your abdomen, and you can scarcely stay conscious, due to the opening in your head, as you crawl painstakingly toward your fellow soldiers. You know you are at death's doorstep. If they keep you alive until a medic can...