Assisted Suicide Vs Active Euthanasia

Assisted suicide or euthanasia has been contemplated by many medical personnel for years. Have you ever seen someone laying in the hospital, in so much pain there’s no way out of it. There’s no getting better, only worse. The doctors say it isn’t good, and that they’re in too much pain for the medicine to help much-they’ve done all that they can do. Where do you turn? Your last hope is the DNR (Do Not Resuscitate). Leaving them writhing in pain for days, weeks, and even months. They want it all to end, they cry and they plead because they do not have the strength themselves. What would you do? "We always listen to the patient. We never tell a patient: 'This is what you have to do. You have no choice.' Yet at the moment when their life is
Passive is the act of withdrawing from treatment intentionally, resulting in death. Active Euthanasia is when the patient is given an overdose of medicine to kill them, exc. The difference between these two is the act of omission versus the act of treating to kill. Finally we have Physician Assisted Suicide, which is a doctor counseling them and helping them with a painless death. "Euthanasia involves a death that is intended (not merely foreseen) in order to benefit the person who dies. It differs from physician-assisted suicide undertaken in the interest of the person who dies partly in that it involves a final act or omission by someone other than the patient (e.g., the doctor) in order to end the patient's life.... In active euthanasia, the doctor introduces the cause of the patient's death, e.g., a lethal injection.... Active physician-assisted suicide can involve, for example, the provision of means of death, like pills, that a patient may use. However, it might also involve giving the patient a stimulant to keep him awake so that he can shoot himself. That is, the active assistance need not involve giving a lethal substance." (Kamm,
This causes ethical, and religious conflicts all across the board. People’s general personal feelings do not matter-the law does. There are no federal laws about euthanasia currently but being said the act is prohibited under general homicide laws, these matters are usually handled at the state level, not the national.

The most famous advocate for euthanasia was Doctor Kevorkian; he was a pathologist, activist, painter, author, composer, and instrumentalist. Born in a small town in Michigan, young boy would soon turn into the infamous Doctor Death. During his medical career he worked and studied at Henry Ford Hospital, the University of Michigan Medical Center, and the Saratogan
General Hospital. His whole adult life was devoted to creating a painless death to terminally ill patients. Shortly before his death he made a claim to have helped at least 130 terminally ill patients commit