Euthanasia is defined as painless killing of a person who has a painful, incurable disease or incapacitating order. When someone is faced with a dying loved one, these issues become more than mere exercises in ethical philosophy. This subject can and does become horrifying predicaments that may seem to offer no satisfactory resolutions. Euthanasia arises many controversial discussions all around the world, every stated has a different point of view on where euthanasia stands. Medical technology has made it possible to extend life or death as some argue, far past the point of what would have been considered normal less than a generation ago.
             When someone is lying in a hospital bed, unable to move, speak, or anything of that nature it should be there right to decide if they wish to live their life like that or to end it. There are people suffering form pain, many when newly diagnosed with a disease or terminal illness realize they will eventually need care, and support toward the end of their life, someone to always be there to help them do something at one point in their life they could once do. When it gets to that certain point, the patient does not want to live and, "there is no law, no medical society, no religion, no church, and even no pro-life organization which insist on forcing a dying person to be kept alive by heroic or burdensome." (Kind. 1) "It currently costs around $230 million to develop a new drug in the United States." (Moss.1)With the rising cases of cancer, when someone chooses to die it is helping save money on the economy, It sounds horrible, but it is very true. The cost of treatments for cancer is on an all time rise, every year it increases today, "the over all cost of cancer treatments in America is now approximately $100 billion per year" (Moss.2) Also when it comes to patients who are suffering from say cancer, a lot of the treatments cause many side effects. Some that peopl...