The practice of euthanasia provides people affected by an incurable illness with an alternative route to retaining control over their life and should be supported by legal and medical justifications. As a practice, euthanasia, also known as mercy killing, results in the painless death of a patient afflicted with an incurable, painful disease or permanent coma to prevent the continuous suffering of said patient. In modern society, euthanasia is controversial as it calls the ethics of permitting the intentional death of a human into question. At its core, the assisted death debate is divided due to the controversy in the belief that legalizing euthanasia inhibits the value that society places on human life. In reality, euthanasia does not undermine
