“Euthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it” (Bram Stoker, Dracula). Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing or assisted suicide, is morally acceptable. Euthanasia is the intentional, painless practice of killing a patient suffering from an incurable and arduous disease or irreversible coma. People should support propriety because those who are suffering or anyone in sound mind should have the right to die and have the right to die peacefully without being deemed unstable as they commit suicide to end their own suffering, instead of using the better option, euthanasia.
(Section 306 in The Indian Penal Code states, 306. Abetment of suicide).—”If any person commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.” Although this information is valid, the Ninth Amendment reads, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
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Farber, ALTERNET, Human Rights: ‘Silent’ Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don’t Know They Have) Farber writes that Justices have proclaimed: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of life.” The justices strive to expand the horizons of human freedom as homosexual relations and abortion have been integrated into society. The author of Prescription: Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death, Jack Kevorkian says, “In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients’ dis-ease.” The claim in favor to propriety is valid because many doctors lie or withhold important information from the patient to prevent stress and panic. This in itself is