Euthanasia is the act of killing someone who wants to die but is not able to commit suicide.
Nowadays it isn't legal, but there's a lot of discussion about it. People in favor of euthanasia say that the government should allow it in some cases like terminal illnesses or similar. On the other hand, people against euthanasia say that killing is a crime and, moreover, it shouldn't be normal for a person to make someone else kill them.
So here's the problem: is it moral to kill someone because they want to die?
I personally think that it is (in some cases). Euthanasia should be legal. Why do I think that? Let's get into the situation.
Imagine that you have a terminal illness, like cancer, for example, and you know that there's no possibility for you to get any better. You are certain that, for the rest of your life, you will only suffer and will always depend on someone else. Don't you think that, if you wanted to end your life, you should be able to do so? And, if you weren't able to take your life on your own, would you like to have someone else to help you?
People should do whatever they want to do with their lives. And concerning doctors' moral, they see people sying everyday and, sometimes, they give terminal patients a paliative treatment that won't cure them nor make their lives longer. Moreover, the methods that have been proposed for the realization euthanasia are all painless (like injections, for example).
Is death a bad thing anyway? We know nothing about it and we are pretending that a life full of suffering is better than an earlier death. I think that it's more moral to let someone die if that's their wish than to make them live with agony.
There was a polemical case recently in the United States. A young woman of Oregon, USA, commited suicide at the age of 29 on 1 November after announcing through Youtube that she would do so. Her name was Brittany Maynard and she had a terminal brain cancer. She had campaigned in favor of euthanasia and announced that she'd rather die by taking a prescribed life-ending drug that by the terrible way she was told she would. She died in bed, peacefully, surrounded by all her loved ones. There are only five states in the United States that allow euthanasia: Oregon, Washington State, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico. Here you can see Brittany's video explaining her story:
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