Good afternoon class and Mrs Crothers. How do you think people feel when they are suffering a serious illness? People from experience of this say they felt depressed, worried and alone. How would you like to feel like this 24/7? Patients who are abandoned by their family or told there are no available treatments may feel euthanasia is the only solution. I feel euthanasia is wrong and should be banned worldwide. Euthanasia is when a very sick person is assisted in taking their own life to relieve them from suffering pain. In the Netherlands over 3000 died from euthanasia with a doctor’s assistance. I feel there are alternative treatments available in some cases. We do not have to kill the patient to kill the symptoms. It is murder. Even though Euthanasia is legal in only three countries many people is travelling over to get this process carried out. Euthanasia can bring very dramatic effects upon family members and friends. Family members might begin to feel guilty as they may feel they didn’t do enough to stop their loved one doing this. It’s as if a black cloud has come over their whole life bringing depression, sadness and tears. Death is a very hard thing to get over and takes time. Friends and family will never be able to forget and fully get over it. The law says “To kill another person deliberately is murder or man slaughter, even if the other person asks you to kill them” So I believe euthanasia should be treated the same. It is murder. If someone I loved and