The image Karen and her partner David Sweetman cannot erase from their minds is of a blue tin shed on an estate. The only thing that stopped them from allowing the euthanasia to happen was Rona’s determination to go through with it. Karen kept asking her, “Rona, are you sure about this?” But she never wavered. “To this day, though, I can’t help but feel guilty for taking her there”(Weathers). Karen Sweetman took her mother to a clinic to have euthanasia. Karen’s mother wanted out from her suffering, and believed the physicians that the process would save her money, her dignity, and help her family. To this day, Karen still feels the guilt of helping her mother die. Meriam Webster defines euthanasia as “the act or practice of killing or permitting
