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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (QUESTIONS: (-WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT…
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 
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What is it?
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The term assisted suicide has several different interpretations. Perhaps the most widely used and accepted is "the intentional hastening of death by a terminally ill patient with assistance from a doctor, relative, or another person."
The doctor may decide the best option for a patient who is declared as clinically brain dead is to switch off the life-support machines; equipment without which the patient will die. The doctor in charge will talk to the patient's family. However, the final decision is the doctor's. Act 1983 excludes children and people under the age of 18 years.
History
The English medical word "euthanasia" comes from the Greek word eu meaning "good," and the Greek word thanatos meaning "death."
Since the early 1800s euthanasia has been a topic of debates and activism in the USA, Canada, Western Europe and Australasia.
An anti-euthanasia law was passed in the state of New York in 1828. It is the first known anti-euthanasia law in the USA. In subsequent years many other localities and states followed suit with similar laws. Several advocates, including doctors promoted euthanasia after the American Civil War. At the beginning of the 1900s support for euthanasia peaked in the USA, and then rose up again during the 1930s.
Most religions disapprove of euthanasia. Some of them absolutely forbid it. The Roman Catholic church, for example, is one of the most active organisations in opposing euthanasiaReligions are opposed to euthanasia for a number of reasons:.
The sanctity of life: God gives people life, so only God has the right to take it away.
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