Euthanasia is not Murder Euthanasia is a topic that everyone has an opinion on, and it’s usually a very strong one. You hear people discuss it like abortion. Is euthanasia ethical? Is it murder? Euthanasia is not murder because it is not a brutal act of killing and it is only administered with the consent of the patient or of his/her family. The definition of murder is to kill brutally or to put …showed first 75 words of 908 total…

…showed last 75 words of 908 total…s life can and will be argued, but the fact is that the facts cannot be argued. Murder is brutal, immoral and a method of death. Euthanasia is only considered one of those three. In the article, The need for Euthanasia, by Christiaan Barnard, says, “…when the terminally ill patient has reached this stage, the best medical treatment is death. I don’t consider death to be the real enemy; death is often a friend.”