When Death knocks on your door When life has lost all its happiness, joy, its meaning, purpose, when all is lost what is there to live for…nothing. On average 55% of terminally ill patients die in pain. There is but one solution to end such suffering. Euthanasia. Euthanasia can be used to alleviate pain from terminally ill patients but according to medical ethics and Christian beliefs, euthanasia is doing the opposite of helping humanity, instead it is turning them into “legal” killing machines, as of now almost all the world has deemed euthanasia as an illegal act of medical practice, but countries such as France have been looking to allow such practice in there state, ultimately a decision will be made, but the bottom line is should it be …show more content…
Some groups greatly encourage the legalization of euthanasia such group is called The American Civil Liberties Union and their statement for such a strange practice of medicine is that “stated in the 1996 amicus brief in Vacco V. Quill it states that people have the right to die and negating that right not only violates the amicus but if violates the ground on which America is built upon, the ground that states all citizens are entitled to rights and they shall never be negated nor ignored. Others greatly disagree with such “practice” and say that if such act were to be legalized then it would nullify the physician’s role as the healer and instead mark them as a killer, a scoundrel, a stealer of life….the grim reaper. They also argue that the elderly would be specifically targeted if such act were to become legal, they explain that “the elderly may feel pressured to die to alleviate the burden on the family” and in the process speed up the giving of money to the