use a slippery slope for legal murder. If we allow doctors to kill patients, what will happen next? Where do we draw the line?The Catholic Church supports those who are against Euthanasia. The Church believes that giving a patient medication that will have the double effect of relieving pain and possibly speeding up death is morally acceptable, since the ultimate motive is not death, but rather, alleviating pain. However, if one were to attend to a patient and increased the dosage of medication with the purpose of ending the patient's life, then the Catholic Church would consider such an act as murder. The belief is that everything happens for a reason, and the decision of one's life or death is not ours, but God's; by trying to control life or death, we would be interfering with God's will. God would not give us anything that we could not handle; so we must let life run its entire course to the very end. Personally, I believe that the right to die with dignity is a personal choice that needs to be not taken lightly and should be well-thought out. Euthanasia affects not only the person who dies, but other family, friends and those doctors or individuals who help make that decision. This decision is not for everyone. However, those who are facing an uncertain shortened future should be allowed to make this decision for themselves. Manysafeguards need to be in place and legislation needs to be introduced to address this issue. It is a decision that no one ever hopes to have to make, but by ignoring it, it will not goaway.I think we should legalize Euthanasia. ...
