It is not an everyday occurrence that someone must decide the fate of another's
             life. The dilemma of making a decision that someone must die in order for the
             others to survive, can obviously be troubling. The process in which the
             termination of one's life may be easy to make, but to justify that decision is
             the most difficult one. This paper is given a situation in which a decision of
             taking one's life is essential. The situation is that a nuclear war has occurred,
             which has destroyed most of the centres of civilization. There are five people
             that are that have escaped death by finding their way to a nuclear bunker. These
             five people consist of a pregnant woman; an old man, who is a retired judge; two
             teenagers - a fourteen-year-old boy and a sixteen-year-old girl; and a young and
             healthy woman who is a doctor. They all have been there for fifteen days and
             they must remain there for an additional fifteen days before they can be rescued.
             The problem is that although there are five of them in the bunker, there is only
             enough food for four people to survive for the remaining fifteen days. Rationing
             the food will not be of any use, because all will die with such a plan. The only
             way for most of the survivors to live for the next fifteen days is for one to
             die. Somehow they have contacted an outside source to advise them on the
             questions of "Who shall die?", and "How should the decision of choosing the
             person be carried out?" These are all very difficult questions to answer, but
             something must be done. It is unlikely that someone will voluntarily allow
             someone to kill them so that the others may live, that is why another form of
             decision making must be allowed. The best way to do so is probably by that
             outside aid to suggest that they try drawing lots. For example whoever pulls the
             shortest straw is the one who dies. With no time to procrastinate, this would
             seem the most time efficient and fa...