AN ASSESMENT OF EUTHANASIA OR MERCY KILLING AND ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

There is no gain in saying that it that so many people suffering terminal or life-threatening illnesses cry and request that their life be terminated rather than continuous stay on their sick bed for a long time especially when they are in pains and do not have the hope of recovering from such illnesses. An ill patient gets to a stage and becomes worrisome and therefore, request that his or her life be ended since there seem no hope of recovering from such illness. This demand or request on the part of the patient is sequel to the fact that these ill persons have suffered perpetually and it has got to the stage of preferring death to living while the suffering persists and they remain in anguish. A 55-year-old Canadian woman recently requested to die over a continuous illness of COVID which has prevented her from the ‘simple joys of living’.