Doctors Who Practice Euthanasia Should be Executed

Doctors the Practice Euthanasia Should be Executed

An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child

with AIDS, a teacher past her prime, and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors

with the O.K. of their families. But is it really a ggod thing? Euthanasia, or

doctor-assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen

story building or taking a gun to one1s own head. Certainly society frowns

upon suicide, but yet putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is

being accepted every day. Society knows that suicide is bad, but

euthanasia is even worse. The guilt and blame of a lost life is falling on

the hands of doctor1s that we are supposed to trust, and even worse, the

family members themselves. A doctor is to be known as a healer, not an

agent of death. A family is supposed to love and support, not kill and

inherit. Every person makes the light of the world brighter. The world

needs everyone1s power and contribution. It1s the power and energy of the

elderly, and the strength and will of the ill, that give the world life.

The light has become very dim with the crime and corruption in today1s

world, we can1t afford to throw lives away because some think they1re

meaningless. If we continue to accept the merciless killings and suicides

of the helpless but powerful, the light will soon burn out. There will be

no energy in the world. Euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide should not

be accepted or allowed by the government and people of the United States.

Statistics show that seventy-three percent of the U.S. population

approved of some form of euthanasia. This is used constantly in debates to

pass laws for making euthanasia legal. But the people are deceived by this

number. When the poll was taken, the people were asked if they approved of

"some form" of euthanasia. There are two forms of euthanasia, active and

passive. It is the passive euthanasia that many people are accepting, the

less harsh of the two. That's why people generally say they approve of it.

If a separate question was asked or the people were informed of the