Euthanasia is the practice of ending a person's life so as to release them from unbearable suffering or an incurable disease. There are two different types: passive euthanasia occurs when all means are not carried out to prevent a person's death, whereas during active euthanasia, direct actions are performed which will lead to a painless death in a person who is horrendously suffering. There is general consensus around the world that passive euthanasia is morally …showed first 75 words of 841 total…

…showed last 75 words of 841 total…or mental suffering coupled with a persistently expressed desire to die. Frequent checks and balances prevent the system from being abused. A human suffering, suffering interminably, suffering until death, must have the chance to shorten that period of suffering. To oppose active voluntary euthanasia is myopic injustice. To legalise euthanasia shows civilised maturity, the civility to respect rights and choices of others, the maturity to offer society a chance to prove voluntary euthanasia laws work.