Active Euthanasia

I think that active euthanasia is more challenging than its passive version. In active euthanasia, the patient is asking someone to help them put an end to their day. There are several important factors to be taken into account before one can even think about it.

First, I think that in the case of someone afflicted by an incurable disease and whose suffering is unbearable, one can tend to let oneself be saddened by the situation and help them die. But we must also realize that there are some very efficient painkillers out there, and that usually excruciating pains conduce naturally to death, without the help of a friend or family member.

The other important thing we must ask ourselves is to what extent the patient is really lucid when requesting the help of other people to kill themselves.
Despite the fact that I am usually very sensitive to other people’s suffering, I don’t think I’d be ready to pull the trigger or the plug in order to help them die. However, I would consider helping someone die only if they are dealing with insupportable pain with no hope whatsoever to ever recover. But I would do that only if I have to pull a plug, because I would never use a weapon, poison or whatever means criminal usually use to kill people