Euthanasia -- The Right to Die The word euthanasia comes from the Greek-eu, “good” and thanatos, “death”. Literally “good death”, but when we talk about euthanasia we mean mercy killing or physician-assisted suicide; basically it is meant to help someone to achieve a good death. Majority of those, who seek euthanasia are terminally ill and do not have any other options. Either they stay alive and suffer from the severe pain, the symptoms, and the …showed first 75 words of 1226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1226 total…unless severe pain and suffering is involved, we should always choose life over death. As Ellen Goodman remembers what his grandfather said to her: “ No one wants to live to be one hundred until you ask the man who is ninety-nine. Well, no one, including Earle Spring, wants to live to be senile. But once senile, he may well want to live. We simply have to give him the benefit of the doubt. Any doubt”(560).