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Words Passive Euthanasia "Developments in medical technology have significantly increased the capacity to sustain life beyond any possible hope of recovery. Patients...can now be sustained almost indefinitely as a result of the intervention of artificial life-support equipment or other medical or surgical procedures (Otlowski)." In this day and age technology has advanced health care drastically. Doctors have the ability to save patients suffering from injury and disease that in the past they could not do. They are able to keep patients alive through circumstances that once we inconceivable. This has brought about the argument of euthanasia. There are two kinds of euthanasia: passive and active. Passive euthanasia is when "the plug is pulled." Active euthanasia is when the patient's life is taken either by them self or "assisted" by a doctor. Euthanasia is defined as the act of causing death painlessly, so as to end suffering (Webster's). Active euthanasia...

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