Maliciousness in Society Today Active euthanasia and passive euthanasia are different in the way killing is different from letting die. Doctors today condone passive euthanasia but reject the idea of its counterpart. If a person on life support does not want to “endure the unendurable” , they have no choice but to live out their sentence. Theologians think that a human life is in itself a valuable thing than it is morally wrong to shorten it. …showed first 75 words of 953 total…

…showed last 75 words of 953 total…on every level, whether it be mercy killing or the brutal drowning of a nephew. Either way, morally neither is worse. By removing food and water from someone a doctor is not just killing, he is removing life. This by no means ends the controversy that is euthanasia for many who accept euthanasia in principle worry about the various slippery slopes to unjustified killings if euthanasia were ever instituted into codes or practice of law.