Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Lindsay Bulford
Position Paper
Sam Zarhan
English 241
October **, 2002
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Originally, the term, euthanasia meant "good death" (Manning 1). Terminology of words has been a great factor in the perception of right or wrong. Now, euthanasia, by definition, is the practice of mercifully ending a person's life in order to release the person from an incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. Voluntary euthanasia is actually a person asking to die. …