1 should nurses participate in active euthanasia? Active euthanasia is the assisted killing of a patient suffering from a terminal and painful disease or in an irreversible coma, by a lethal injection or medication. In my opinion nurses should be able to participate in active euthanasia, if the patient has made the decision to die. I believe this because nurses’ responsibility is to help patients that are in suffering and in pain, overcome that pain. If the pain and suffering cannot be improved by medication or other treatment, and the patient had made a decision it should be completed. Patient that have a decision already made should not be keep suffering, it is not fair to them to have to keep living with so much pain when they no
