hanasia without consent now must be considered. Everybody has a right to chose to die if they want to. Who is to chose whether a person should die or not when the person cannot make the decision on their own, and their was no previous decision made? If no decision was previously made, and no consent can be given at the present time, than can a decision be made on the life or death of another? Unless we are willing to prevent death with every means available for every individual, we choose to exercise choice over death. The reasons we make those choices are varied and often ones we are not willing to face. Killing to end the pain and suffering of the one being killed could be one of the most noble choices we could make. I believe that in cases where no consent can be given, a decision must be made to intervene to prevent death or to intervene and cause death. The decision making itself is moral because death is a choice. The person or people who make the decision will vary with each circumstance. I believe that if the person is in experiencing pain and suffering, then the euthanasia would be morally permissible, even when no consent can be given.To sum up my argument thus far, I have come to the conlusion that euthanasia with consent, and euthanasia without consent in most circumstanes would be morally permissible. I have developed a supposed continuum, where I have come to the conclusion that death is a choice. Passive and active euthanasia are both decisions leading to death, and therefore are both morally permissible because they excersise death as a choice. A choice must be made to intervene to prevent death and to intervene to cause death. This choice may be based on consent of an individual, or in cases where no consent can be given, the condition of the individual. An opposition to my argument would be that death is not a choice, and everything must be done to prevent death from occuring. This argument may be back...
