Euthanasia Euthanasia is, according to Webster dictionary, the act of killing an individual for the reason of mercy. This paper will examen the issue of active and passive euthanasia. Active euthanasia is an intervention that would cause death to take place when it would not otherwise happen. Passive euthanasia is the decision to withold help from an individual, ultimately leading to the death of the individual. This paper is supposed to deal with the circumstances, …
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…a choice cannot always be eliminated. In the situations where the persons life no longer holds value to the person, death becomes an option and a choice. Death is a choice, and I believe that everybody should have the moral right to chose between intervention to prevent death and intervention to cause death. This argument against the beliefs in this paper does not in anyway take away the moral permissibility of death as a choice.