suicide and euthanasia

Reasons for Euthanasia

For:

• People should be allowed to die with dignity and without pain.

• The quality of the persons life must be considered.

• The voluntary euthanasia society.

Against:

• Religious opponents say that life is a gift from god and only god can truly end life.

• People might be killed who don't want to die, so it isn't fair for some people to  end life as a way out of pain.
• A persons life can be ended with dignity is a hospice.

Is suicide the same as euthanasia?

• Some ways related

• Both concern people's choices of how and when a human life should end.

• The main difference is that euthanasia involves more than 1 person, there is someone else to provide the means of the death.

2 types of Euthanasia:

• Voluntary euthanasia- when someone chooses to end their life and ask for help in doing so. This is often called assisted suicide.

• Involuntary euthanasia- when other people decide to end a persons life,…