Euthanasia

Euthanasia should be legal practise. We are a democratic country, and we, as free individuals should have the right to decide for ourselves whether or not to terminate the lives of our loved ones or ourselves. It was only in the nineteenth century that the word Euthanasia came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the deliberate …

…to honour that request than to deny it. People have the right to die with dignity. Nobody wants to end up wired into a machine and connected to tubes. Who wants to spend their last days lying in a hospital bed wasting away to something that is hardly recognisable as a human being, let alone his or her former self? Nobody. The very thought insults the whole concept of what it means to be human.