pos;s. The barriers against killing are coming down." In my opinion, Dr. Alexander was taking it a bit far, no one is saying go out and kill everybody you don't like. Nobody is saying go out and kill all the senior citizens. Nor is anyone saying, "Save America money! Kill the ones who cost us!" That's not it at all. What pro-Euthanasia people mostly want is for the suffering of family, friends, and individual people or victims as the case may be to come to an end, as quickly and painlessly (for all parties) as possible
             Upon researching Euthanasia, one can't help but come across the case of Baby Doe. The most common example used when talking about the moral wrongs involved with physician-assisted suicide. Baby Doe was born in an Indiana hospital on Good Friday, in 1982. Doe was born with a condition called Downs' syndrome. If you are not familiar with Downs it is a condition which almost always leads to retardation. However, it may be very minor, at birth it is not possible to tell how severely it will effect one's mental capacity. A common ailment with Downs' is the inability to get food into the stomach. Surgery is usually needed to correct this. Without the surgery, the child would starve. His parents refused to let the surgery be done. Doe's father had worked kids who had Downs' syndrome. He saw how hard it was on the parents of these children, and it hardened his heart toward them. He did not want to have to go through life seeing his child live like that. Thus, he refused to let Doe live. Indiana courts ruled what the parents did was legally sanctioned. Of course, moralists however moaned immensely about what had happened to the baby. They believe this is totally against God's will. The problem with is this isn't assisted suicide. This is the parents' misconduct that lead to the child's death, not the child itself. Under the unwritten rules of Euthanasia,...