When Michael was thirteen, his grandmother was diagnosed with a disease called Alzheimer's. This disease made her mind unable to function normally, which caused her to lose her ability to think clearly and remember things. Soon after she was diagnosed, she moved into a nursing home. Every Sunday after church, Michael and his family would go to the nursing home to visit her. Week by week, his grandmother seemed less aware of what was going on. It seemed as though she did not even notice that they were there to visit her. Michael soon became discouraged. "Why do we have to visit her every week? By the next day she will probably have forgotten that we were even there". Michael began to think more and more about his grandmother. "If she doesn't know what is going on anyway, wouldn't she just be happier in heaven? Isn't there some sort of way to get her to heaven sooner?" Michael's mother explained to him that sending grandma to heaven now may be the easiest thing to do, but as Christians, it is wrong.
             Euthanasia is one of the most controversial and emotions issues of today. It triggers extreme emotion because it involves ending human life (Bloyd 15). Some people believe that the most suitable way to make the painful sight of the elderly in
             misery disappear is to end life. Although elderly people can go through tremendous suffering as a result of a diseases, euthanasia is never an acceptable option.
             Euthanasia is what some people call mercy killing. It is defined as, "the deliberate, painless killing of persons who suffer from a painful and incurable disease or condition, or who are aged and helpless" (Cayne 327). Its purpose is to prevent or to end the suffering that takes place. The word "euthanasia" is an English-language version of a Greek phrase eu thonatos (Gay 17). Eu actually means "good" or "happy", while thontos means &qu...