e food or water, he will die a peaceful death in 2 days to 2 weeks. Usually it is less than a week” (Pilgrim 1). Essentially these people are opting to let the patient starve to death or die from malnutrition. Assuming that the person is a proverbial vegetable, this might be the favorable choice, but if the person is of sound mind, that treatment is far more cruel that the typical medications that are administered during euthanasia. What it amounts to is the individual’s choice versus the government versus the family’s choice. The man wants to go through with the process, the government will not allow it, and the family wants the man to be at peace, but does not want to let them go. Euthanasia might as well be spelled “c-o-n-t-r-o-v-e-r-s-y” because it seems that we all go in circles with our points of view. What we need to do is sit down and put ourselves in a situation of pain, suffering, and incompetency, and then decide what we would like our outcome to be....
