His parents, children and grandchildren stood around his motionless body as his eyes popped open. His lifeless eyes gazed blankly around the room. Everyone smiled and tears of joy and hope fell. Except for Lisa. She was off in the corner with her own tears, but these were tears of sorrow and compassion. How could she smile? He did not open his own eyes. The machines did that for him. He was so helpless that the machines did everything for him. They breathed for him, thought for him, and lived for him. He couldn't move, he couldn't see and he was completely unaware that there was anyone in the room with him. Being forced to live with this suffering is pointless. Anyone who would not let someone be excused from this pain is "heartless and inhuman". Euthanasia is the practice of "Mercy killing". This is ending a person's life in order to release this person from an incurable disease, intolerable suffering or undignified death.
             There are two different kinds of euthanasia. Active euthanasia is painlessly ending an individual's life for merciful reasons. A doctor could administer a lethal dose of medication to end a person's life. Passive euthanasia is a lack of an action to prevent death. A doctor could not use an artificial respirator to keep a patient a live. Euthanasia should always be an option for those people who are suffering, whether it is voluntary (the patient asks to die) or nonvoluntary (the patient is not mentally competent to request to die).
             If it is voluntary I feel that the individual has the right to decide if they want to live with the pain or not. To deny a terminally ill patient the right to die with dignity is unfair and cruel. No one knows what it is like to live this way unless you are living this way. Susan Hess writes "I have multiple myeloma... a rare bone marrow cancer...[that] destroys the blood, bones, immune system, kidneys, and sometime...