Euthanasi Voluntary Active Euthanasia, Passive Euthanasia...

According to American Heritage Dictionary euthanasia is defined as the art or practice of ending the life of a person or animal having a terminal illness or a medical condition that causes suffering. Euthanasia should be a individual choice to end a patient s life. This keeps them from going through excruciating pain due to an incurable disease. Some people think euthanasia should be out of the picture while others inquiry the effectiveness of these actions. With effectiveness, euthanasia is classified in three categories. There are three types of euthanasia; voluntary active euthanasia, passive euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Voluntary euthanasia is actually deliberate intervention meaning by a patient wanting†¦show more content†¦Also the Church says, The temptation becomes all the greater to resolve the problem of suffering by eliminating it at the root, by hastening death so that it occurs at the moment considered most suitable. (Ionyo) There is always value t o suffering as we as human beings should realize that suffering is very important of the religious life. Another standard of Church, We as Christians should remember that beyond this life there is heaven. With euthanasia, there always is the question of ethics and morals for involved. On the medical side there is questions to be answered. Like, is it ethical to take someone s life even when they asked you repeatedly? A doctor takes the Hippocratic Oath to best treat their patient s life. The question is, should we release them from suffering or continue in trying to help the individual during their time on earth? In the article A problem for the idea of involuntary euthanasia, Neil Campbell analyzes ethnic and moral question of involuntary, voluntary and furthermore the restraints of physician assisted suicide. Campbell believes involuntary euthanasia may not exist because, When a person asks to die under such conditions there is good reason to think that the decision to die is com pelled by the pain and hence not freely chosen (Campbell, 242) Is that request what the patient wants, or is it to end the pain? Another point to examine is their quality of the person s life. Has their life disintegrated to the