Terri Schiavo was a Florida woman who suffered brain damage and was in a coma since the early 1990s. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, felt guilty after seeing his wife in a hospital bed. hospital, managed to recover her. feeding tube removed. Unbeknownst to Terry's parents, they then fought a legal battle in court to force doctors to put the tube back in, but they lost. In 2005, Schiavo died, two weeks after the feeding tube was removed. Schiavo was a human being, like all of us, in an uncontrollable situation, lying on a hospital bed. Her husband, knowing he would likely never see his wife again, completed the difficult task of ending her life, allowing her to die without further misery. It's moments like this that beg the question: is euthanasia mercy or murder? Euthanasia, or “mercy killing,” strategically involves ending the life of a sick person, painlessly. Over the past decades, there have been many discussions around the world about this. Some European countries, such as Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have certain divisions of euthanasia that are considered legal. In other countries where euthanasia is strictly prohibited, courts decide not to sanction people who practice it. There are two main types of euthanasia: active euthanasia (doctors or nurses giving a sick patient medicine that will kill them) and passive euthanasia (refusing to give the patient necessary treatment/meals.) In some cases, life support is turned off and patients slowly succumb to their pain. Sometimes we decide not to feed them anymore. The main problem in all of this is who decides if and when euthanasia should be carried out: the doctors, the family or the patient. Sometimes the report...... middle of paper ...... of an unbalanced thought process or a simple logical decision in mentally ill people? What would happen if the person chose assisted suicide as an option and the family did not agree? In some cases, it is unclear whether a sick person actually wants to die. Euthanasia, in my opinion, should only happen if a person really wants to commit or if they fully understand how sick they are. www.lifenews.com/2013/11/18/euthanizing-the-unhappy-the-urgent-need-for-love/http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2010/09/25/palliative-care-versus- euthanasia/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200http://www.assistedsuicide.org/suicide_laws.htmlhttp://www.elon.edu/e-web/pendulum/ Issues/2005/11_10/opinions/euthanasia.xhtmlhttp://www.statisticbrain.com/euthanasia-statistics/