Euthanasia is most commonly defined as the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable or painful disease or an irreversible coma; also a physician or 3rd party administering the fatal dose, patient may be incompetent at that point. That is not the only definition however. Some like to say that it is painless where some argue it is painful. Some say it is flat out suicide, others say it is an ends to a mean. When you think about it though, without adding all the controversy in, why wouldn’t someone have the right to chose when and how they die. Assisted-Suicide, a form of Euthanasia, is defined as the patient administering the fatal dose. Then you have a few subtypes of Euthanasia. Since it is such a touchy subject and rides the …show more content…
There is proof of euthanasia in our ancient history. In greek terms euthanasia means “good death” and a lot of people saw this as a good way to go. Although instead of taking pills they used Hemlock which is a poison. One author notes “In Western literature, the term ‘drink a cup of hemlock’ has, through shakespeare and others, come to mean the way to rational suicide.” Roman philosopher and statesman, Seneca “ Recommends suicide when old age threatened to to bring undignified decay”. Yet evidence shows that even some of the ancient greeks opposed of it as well. In the 17th century, Francis Bacon was the first to use Euthanasia in a medical context stating the euthanasia he felt while dying was an “easy, painless, happy death.”There is places they have found and seen that show some people being honored for taking their way out instead of living in pain but others showing even if they were in an unbearable pain they would not be honored or loved and missed if they chose to use euthanasia. People felt this way because they say that life is a gift from god. Suicide was viewed as an immoral act of rejecting god’s gift. Enlightened in the eighteenth century philosophers began to criticize the teachings of god by the