Euthanasia: A Good Thing

To end life of a serious patient via a fatal injection is called euthanasia or "sympathy killing". "Euthanasia" in Greek means good death, "eu" means good, "thanasia" means death. (BA Robinson) The right to die with a fatal injection should be the choice of immorality, not a doctor or society, but a person who wants to complete the process. Patients should choose euthanasia when they have such a long life expectancy and have to spend just a little time due to intense pain.

A part of the complexity of euthanasia occurs because it means that the term "euthanasia" differs from person to person. Euthanasia comes from Greece ("EU") and death ("thanatos"). Recently, this term refers to behavior that is motivated by compassion, aiming at avoiding wasteful long-term pain and intentionally killing others in a painless way. Active euthanasia (also called "euthanasia") means the type of euthanasia in which death is directly and positively caused by others. Passive euthanasia refers to a case of euthanasia caused by a lack of long-term intervention, and passive euthanasia usually refers to detention or discontinuation of life support therapy. The difference between active euthanasia and passive euthanasia may be ambiguous, such as removing patient behavior from a ventilator.

Active euthanasia refers to euthanasia caused by acts such as injection of a fatal drug and passive euthanasia refers to euthanasia caused by omission of a certain action. Traditionally, active euthanasia is different from passive euthanasia. The latter stops or discontinues treatment, whereas the former is actively killed. However, the famous philosopher James Rachels thinks that "active euthanasia is not worse than passive euthanasia". His argument is that the results are the same and two actions lead to the death of the patient, so there is no difference between euthanasia, morally, morally and actively.

The importance of active and passive euthanasia is widely believed to be different. To kill a patient is one thing (passive euthanasia), sometimes it may be allowed, but killing is not another thing (active euthanasia). Discrimination between the two forms of euthanasia is being strongly attacked by some philosophers because the fundamental difference between killing and death is unclear, clear, and not morally important. I propose to explore the nature of this distinction, its moral significance and its relevance to euthanasia.