To start my essay on mercy killing, I must say, there are too many situations to just have one opinion on the matter. Mercy killing, or the correct term “Euthanasia”, is currently illegal in Canada. Though activists keep trying to legalize it, it will be a long time before anything happens. Mercy killing, though prominent on recent CBC newscasts, has been around since before 1 BC. Wars were a very big factor for them, and there …showed first 75 words of 417 total…

…showed last 75 words of 417 total…mind is so delusional that they can’t realize that in a few days they will be fine. There are too many possibilities, and too many outcomes. You just have to access each situation. In the poem “David” I though that mercy killing was acceptable, as the was no chance of survival, and he would be dead very soon. He wanted to die, and was in a calm state of mind. It was his decision.