The Giver Euthanasia Essay

31% of Pediatrics have killed Infants using euthanasia and over 550 babies born with disabilities have been killed by euthanasia. Release is another word for Euthanasia in a book by Lois Lowry called, The Giver. In this book, it talks about a kid named Jonas who lives in a Utopia where they are taught to “release” people when they are a twin, too light when born, or old. Jonas learns the truth about release when he starts to learn about the past that the community has taken from them. He soon decides to adventure past the community to escape from the sameness of the people and the truth about it. People shouldn’t be able to chose when they die or when to have a family member die. In fact, Euthanasia is basically killing a person for what is wrong with them. “He killed it! My father killed it!" (Lowry, 188) This quote from The …show more content…
nrlc.org states that accepting a “right to suicide" would create a legal presumption of sanity, preventing appropriate mental health treatment. This proves that when people legalize euthanization, the human race is going to lose control of it and use it instead of proper health solutions. The world will end up using euthanasia instead of using a proper solution to help the person, to keep them from dying. When people just use euthanasia to solve health problems, the world will have very few people left. If those who are sick start to think that euthanasia is their only option, others are forcing them to choose the fate that they want for that person. When people start to think that euthanasia is their only option, doctors are going to have a lot more people asking for it. Some people want their family to live, but not to suffer. Some people do not want to see them suffer and tell the doctor to use euthanasia without the sick person's consent. This is causing people to make them die, even when they know they might