Euthanasia is the practice of ending a life painlessly so as to release an individual from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering with their agreement. Voluntary euthanasia involves a request by the dying patient or that person's legal representative to help him to die e.g. turning off the life support machine. Passive or negative euthanasia involves not doing something to prevent death, that is, allowing someone to die; active or positive euthanasia involves taking deliberate action to cause a death. In ancient Greece and Rome it was permissible in some situations to help others die. With the rise of organized religion, euthanasia became morally and ethically abhorrent. Following traditional religious principles, Western laws have generally considered the act of helping someone to die a form of homicide subject to legal sanctions. Even a passive withholding of help to prevent death has frequently been severely punished. Whether it is voluntary, passive or active euthanasia, it should not be supported or legalized in any country.
             We are God's children. Only he can decide to take our life. It is not ours to take. Christianity, Judaism, Islam and many other religions hold human life sacred and condemn euthanasia in any form. In the Bible for example, Jesus mentioned "Do not murder" many time such as in 'Mathew, Chapter 19, Verse 18.' Taking away someone's life is considered as murder in the understanding of religion. We have to remember that now this life is just a test for us. Patients may suffer severely now but when they die God will give them eternal life full of relaxation and no pain.
             Who decides to turn the life support machine off or to stop giving drugs to the patient that helps him to live? The patient is no condition to respond and he is emotionally effected. If the patient was in a critical condition under a life support machine and he cannot respond to the doctors or the relatives (the prognosis is that he will r...