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 usurp 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 ...