When someone is suffering and in pain many believe that it is his or her duty to ease it for that person. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and set during the Great Depression, a man named George always traveled with a tall and strong man named Lennie, who had troubles remembering things and had the mentality of a child. At one point, a woman known as Curley’s wife, who is a beautiful woman married to Curley, tells Lennie to feel how soft her hair was and when Lennie grabs her hair, she starts to yell. Lennie shakes her saying she needed to be quiet, causing him to break her neck. All the workers start looking for him with thoughts of killing wandering their minds. George knew that Lennie would suffer and did not want him to, so he decided to find Lennie and killed him to avoid this. This is why George, is a prime example of how mercy killing
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When George first learns about what Lennie did, he talks to Slim about what they should do and Slim tells George that “s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George” (Lee 97). George knew that no matter what he did, Lennie would perish, whether he was put in jail or shot. So he decided to kill Lennie quickly and painlessly so he would not have to die a horrible and tedious death. A mother was accused of murder when she helped kill her daughter, Lynn, who had a terminal illness. Lynn’s mother had “administered a cocktail of lethal drugs to end Lynn's life in December 2008 after her daughter called her for help when her own attempts at suicide failed” (Laville). Lynn realised that she was going to die at some point and did not want to be in pain anymore. So she went to her mother and asked her to help her die so she did not have to be in agony anymore. Mercy killing helps people with terminal illnesses to stop the pain and help them die a painless death instead a slow and miserable
When George first learns about what Lennie did, he talks to Slim about what they should do and Slim tells George that “s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George” (Lee 97). George knew that no matter what he did, Lennie would perish, whether he was put in jail or shot. So he decided to kill Lennie quickly and painlessly so he would not have to die a horrible and tedious death. A mother was accused of murder when she helped kill her daughter, Lynn, who had a terminal illness. Lynn’s mother had “administered a cocktail of lethal drugs to end Lynn's life in December 2008 after her daughter called her for help when her own attempts at suicide failed” (Laville). Lynn realised that she was going to die at some point and did not want to be in pain anymore. So she went to her mother and asked her to help her die so she did not have to be in agony anymore. Mercy killing helps people with terminal illnesses to stop the pain and help them die a painless death instead a slow and miserable