Euthanasia is defined as the act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment (Dictionary.com). Euthanasia is distinct from assisted suicide. In assistant suicide the inflictor is the patient. A man who gives himself an injection that contains an overdose of morphine, but the doctor gave the needle and morphine, this is assisted suicide, as opposed to a doctor who directly gives the injection of morphine to the patient.
             There are three types of euthanasia are voluntary, involuntary, and passive. Voluntary euthanasia is when the patient is competent and informed, and asks another to end his or her life without being pressured or forced to do so. An example of this would be a competent woman who asks her husband, a doctor, to give her a lethal injection in order to end her life. Involuntary euthanasia is when a person who has the capacity for informed choice, but who has not requested euthanasia, or who has rejected euthanasia, is killed (Assisted suicide and Euthanasia, 12). An example would be a man who was terminally ill, and he wishes to live as long as possible, is given an overdose of a medication without his or her permission because his family felt sorry for him. Involuntary euthanasia is also when the patient does not have the capacity for informed choice is killed. For example, if a woman was in a coma and was only living through a machine and her son requested to end her life, this would be involuntary euthanasia. The last type is passive euthanasia. This type is when medication or treatment is withheld with the knowledge of death to follow as a result. If a man had a heart attack and if the medical staff watched without attempting to revive him, this would be passive euthanasia. "An important idea behind this distinction is that in "passive euthanasia" the doctors a...