Theory Post

When a person says that a certain issue is a matter of life or death they are often being sarcastic. With euthanasia; however, this is not the case. The legalization of active euthanasia is in fact a matter of life and death! This is what makes this topic so debatable. I do not believe that there is a way to bring the polarized sides together. The debate over euthanasia goes all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome. Most of the debate came into the spotlight in the 1990s in the United States when Dr. Kevorkian invented a machine that would allow his patients to inject themselves with lethal doses of potassium chloride. It has been going on since then and will continue to go on due to the fact that one cannot change someone else’s feeling about whether they think it is permissible for a doctor to assist to kill his or her patient. Something as important as the jurisdiction to take a life is very difficult to come to an agreement on. With the different medical conditions that have to be considered, and the politics surrounding the topic, a solid yes or no to active euthanasia’s morality could quite possibly never be answered.