Assisted Suicide: The End of Suffering :: Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide

Huge purple, grape-like masses are what a man named Richard Chinn adage under a long- pitiables chin when he went to work for a hospital.  This patient was diagnosed with cancer, and those huge masses were the cancerous tumor.  When this man would eat, the cancerous maturation would origin collecting food, of whatever he didnt swallow quickly.  When it would start growing to approximately grapefruit size, or larger, the doctors would amputate it.  However, this did not do much justice, because the growth would just come hazard.  Amputation after amputation made the patient very noisome and want to end his flavor.  He and his family numerously asked doctors to put him out of his misery, and even went to court, further he was still told no.  There was no more fate to this mans deportment, he was low-down miserably and the cancer would never go away.  last he came down with ammonia, and instead of trying to revive him, they finally permit him energize his peace (Chinn).  If euthanasia was legal, then this suffering man could have ended his pain early, but due to complications in the legal system, his life was drug out too long.           Euthanasia is defined as a painless, happy and easy death, which is derived from the Greek words Eu Thanatos.  Looking back to ancient Greece and Rome, Euthanasia was practiced regularly.  If they saw a person suffering miserably and they could do nothing for them, they would end their life early by feeding them poison.  However, throughout time religion was increased, and the life of a gracious being was viewed as sacred.  Because of this, mercy killing was slowly portrayed as ruin (The Controversy).           There are two main types of euthanasia- passive and active.  Although some(prenominal) are illegal in all states but Oregon, passive euthanasia is easier for people to accept.  Pass ive involves taking a person off of their life support, and letting them die naturally, while active is ending a suffering persons life prematurely, by helping them die, with an overdose of medication (A Euthanasia Glossary).  Although Euthanasia is not widely accepted, nor legal, there are people who try to let loose the rules.           Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, was convicted of first-degree murder, in March of 1999, and will spend 10-25 age in prison.  He injected a man named Thomas Youk with a foul level of medicine and killed him.