Euthanasia or no Euthanasia?

The question of whether Euthanasia should be legalized, in my opinion, lies upon a religious matter: Who are we to choose when somebody should die or continue to live? Same way a murderer is condemned to a punishment when ending somebody’s life, it is not because we feel that we are helping others that we should not be punished. As the years go by, medicine develops and will be able to cure these long-term illnesses, rather than the idea of them consuming us that the paragraph argues. I must admit that I am looking at this through my Jewish education, which has taught me that we cannot choose when to take a human’s life, and that we are a superior race to the rest of the animals. For that reason, we can choose when to end a suffering animal’s life, but not when it comes to a human life. It is a human duty to cure, not to kill. With sufferance and with any illness it is our duty to work to cure that person and to hope for the best, not to quit and end their lives. What is more, euthanasia is usually practiced on patients who have lost the ability to communicate with others, so therefore we would be ending somebody’s life without their own consent. And even if we do have his consent, same way we would not let somebody jump off a roof, we would not let somebody kill himself with euthanasia. We should want to help them, to give them a hand and help them through the hard moments. Sometimes helping means coming up with a cure, sometimes it is just talking to them. Euthanasia or jumping off a roof, it is still to commit suicide, and without their consent, it would be as if we would be pushing them off the roof. It is not because it is in a hospital that it makes it different: a life is lost whatever the