ng of life sustaining treatment. In addition, in 1990 congress passed the Patient Self-Determination Act. It requires health care facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid to funds to inform new patients about their legal right to write a living will or choose a proxy to represent them. This brings up a question, “Who’s life is it any way’s?” I do not believe that legislation should stand in the way of someone dying. I think that people should be able to decide. There are many factors that complicate these decisions. First, some people do not have health care or cannot afford someone to be on long term life support. This sounds selfish but people do have to live and go on with their lives. God has a plan for everyone and the decision's people make are with God’s help. Therefore, letting someone die naturally is not a wrongdoing. Did you know that it is not a crime to be present when a person takes their life, but it is a crime to take direct action intentionally designed to help facilitate death? (Euthanasia) The other type of Euthanasia is Active. The doctor administers the lethal drug dose. Active Euthanasia means of actions taken to bring about the death of a dying patient by physician-assisted death. This act is specifically prohibited by law in most states banning “mercy killing” and is condemned by the American Medical Association. (Collegeterm)Active Euthanasia leads us into another subject, physician assisted suicide. This is where a physician supplies info and/or the means of committing suicide. These physicians would prescribe for lethal doses of sleeping pills, or a supply of carbon monoxide gas, to a person, so that they could easily terminate their own life. The term Voluntary Passive Euthanasia (VPE) is becoming commonly used. Dr. Jack Kervorkian a Michigan physician. Thus, he is one of the most known mercy killing doctors. He has promoted VPE and assisted at least a hundred d...
