Robert Latimer Euthanasia Essay

Robert Latimer is a father that had a daughter with Cerebral Palsy. In an attempt to stop her suffering, he placed her in the cab of his truck and connected the exhaust into the cab and let the trucks engine run. It took some time but it eventually suffocated Tracy Latimer. So this brings up a question of the use euthanasia on disabled humans. This Father may have performed the euthanasia himself, but the use of euthanasia on disabled people is an idea that has been proposed in the past. In this paper I will argue that the use of euthanasia on disabled people is wrong and completely unjust idea. Euthanasia or assisted suicide can be seen as either a benefit to families of suffering loved ones and to those suffering or it could be seen as murder to some. But it’s only assisted suicide if that person legally agrees to it before hand or if that person has a family member that has power of attorney. In Robert Latimer's case, he had neither. This is why he was convicted of murder in the second degree. But his motives are similar to a select number of people and those people would argue that it is for

For example, classroom behavior of insubordinate children. Say a elementary school student is acting out and being a disturbance to the rest of the class. For the greater good, the teacher will punish the student or send him to the principal's office so he doesn't continue to disrupt the rest of the students in the class. The teacher would do this because it is in the best interest of the rest of the students for that disruptive student to be sent to the office because the students are there to be educated for the the greater happiness for the students and the rest of society. Because if students aren’t educated they can’t contribute to society which would not be in the best interest of society. And this would all be at the expense of the disruptive