Deadly Compassion Essay
Euthanasia means good death. It must not be misunderstood to mean simply killing he elderly.
The purpose of euthanasia is to relieve the terrible suffering and pain of a terminally ill person with an incurable disease.
The cause of euthanasia is compassion.
Deadly Compassion
There are many ways to euthanize. Some of the more common ways in the recent past: * Suffocation with a plastic bag, most of the time (but not all of the time) drugging the patient first. * Gassing them to death with carbon monoxide: not even approved for putting down a dog or executing a convicted murderer * Lethal injection, but families are not usually allowed to watch because of what the cool poison does to a person as it slides down the bloodstream.
True, many people experience pain, pain that I could not imagine. But at twelve years of age, I watched as cancer ravaged my fathers body. He died from advanced stage malignant melanoma, using the selfless care of hospice workers and the anesthetic effects of morphine to die with true dignity.
