Euthanasia & Ethics

I'll speak about euthanasia. So I'll summarise an article which explains some reasons why so many people are against it.

Euthanasia is the deliberate killing of a person for his own benefit. People usually employ euthanasia because they are very very sick and nobody can help them, they are generally affected by a terminal illness.

Terminally ill people can have their quality of life severely damaged by physical conditions such as incontinence, nausea and vomiting, paralysis, difficulty in swallowing... Psychological factors that cause people to think of euthanasia include depression.

But about the ethics, it's not acceptable to allow this horrible thing. I'll give you several examples or moral questions:

- There is no moral difference between killing someone and letting them die, it's just the same!
- If we accept euthanasia, in which circumstances is it right?
- Euthanasia is like a kind of murder or a type of suicide.
- Family members often wantto spend as much time with their loved ones as possible before they die.
- In Catholicism, official pronouncements forbiden euthanasia, voluntary or not.