Why Is Euthanasia Wrong

Euthanasia is described as, “Intentionally making someone die rather than allowing that person to die naturally. Put bluntly, euthanasia means killing in the name of compassion[...]In euthanasia, one person does something that directly kills another. For example, a doctor gives a lethal injection to a patient”(IAETF 1). While euthanasia advocates believe that American citizens should have the right to die, anti-euthanasia advocates believe that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide defies nature and could be harmful to those who cannot defend themselves, such as disabled people. Due to the complexity of euthanasia, it is a morality issue, stemming from the question of whether or not doctors should be able to kill their patients in the name of compassion. Campaigns such as Right to Die - a

Beginning in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, the majority of the populations had been supporters of physician-assisted suicide, and had even given it the name euthanasia, which literally means “good death.” Opinions began to change in the thirteenth century due to the introduction and rise of Christianity. The people of Christian and Jewish faith condemned euthanasia because it violated the gift given by God: life. Along with that, as stated in The Bible under the ten commandments, commandment number six is, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20: 13.). The sixth commandment forbids one person to kill another, which to many Christians, this includes a doctor killing a patient via a request. In modern times, the argument of whether or not euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should be legalized had only grown more complicated, because of cases such as Mathilde Cramer - the wife of Mars Cramer who decided to legally use euthanasia after suffering from Waldenstrom’s Disease, and the many patients of Dr. Jack Kevorkian - an American pathologist otherwise known as Dr.