A considerable size of society is in favor of Euthanasia mostly
            
 because they feel that as a democratic country, we as free individuals,
            
 have the right to decide for ourselves whether or not it is our right to
            
 determine when to terminate someone's life. The stronger and more widely
            
 held opinion is against Euthanasia primarily because society feels that it
            
 is god's task to determine when one of his creations time has come, and we
            
 as human beings are in no position to behave as god and end someone's life.
            
 When humans take it upon themselves to shorten their lives or to have
            
 others to do it for them by withdrawing life-sustaining apparatus, they
            
 play god. They seize the divine function and interfere with the divine
            
         Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death persons
            
 who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. It come
            
 from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy
            
 killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask
            
 their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or
            
 their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die.
            
 Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
            
 god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
            
 should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
            
         The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine
            
 in the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
            
 word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and
            
 the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the
            
 deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease.
            
 A distinction is made between positive, or active, and negative, or
            
 passive, euthanasia. Positive euthanasia is the deliberate ending of life;
            
 an action taken to cause death in a person...