Imagine that you have just found out you have been diagnosed with alzheimer's and you can’t and won’t remember a lot of things. Imagine a world where you don’t remember what you ate for breakfast, alzheimer’s is an incurable disease that attacks your memories and makes you forget important stuff. Some forget who their own child is or even their spouse. Would you like to live your life not remembering what you did yesterday or would you like to be “put down”. I believe that certain instances are justifiable reasons to be killed such as the case of George killing lennie in Of Mice and Men and assisted suicide. There are also where it is not justifiable such as capital punishment.

In the case of assisted suicide killing is justifiable. “You will become bed ridden, unable to walk or even turn yourself over. You will become completely dependent on nurse assistants to intermittently shift your position to avoid pressure ulcers. When they inevitably slip up, your skin develops huge incurable sores that can sometimes erode to the bone…” (Goodman). This shows that if you do not die fast that it is almost …show more content…
“If the right to a jury means anything, it means the right to have a jury drawn from the community and acting as a proxy for its diverse views and mores, rather than one judge, make the aw2ful decision whether the defendant should live or die”(wilmington). This quote is showing that when you go to court and capital punishment is being looked at that the judge makes the decision on their own and the jury is now useless because no matter what they say the judge makes the decision. “While executions become less frequent - with 35 in 2014 compared with 98 in 1988”(Heyns). Most people who defend the death penalty say that it makes people commit less crimes but it is really just that the judge’s hand it out less often now than in 1998, last year there was a total of 1,165,383 estimated violent