Euthanasia and the World Today Euthanasia can be described as one of society's more widely and hotly debated moral issues of our time. Active euthanasia, by definition, is “Doing something, such as administering a lethal drug, or using other means that cause a person's death.” Passive euthanasia, which seems to not be debated as heavily, is defined as "Stopping (or not starting) some treatment, which allows a person to die, the person's condition causes his …showed first 75 words of 1114 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1114 total…perhaps impossible, to legislate a point of illness or disability where euthanasia would be considered legally or ethically acceptable. To do so would be saying that all disabled or terminally ill patients have no chance for a happy and fulfilling life. I believe that we are taking quite a risk when we bring about another person's death willfully, thus assuming that we have the ability to look into the future and deem their life unlivable.