With names like Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Terri Schiavo making international headlines during the past few years, the complicated subject of euthanasia remains on everyone's mind. But when considering the plight of the terminally ill and their potential suffering, is "pulling the plug" a matter of dying with dignity or tragically playing God?
The simple answer to the profound question, do the terminally ill have a right to die, is that nobody has a choice in the matter. Anyone who is going to experience life is also going to experience death. And in that life process some of us, sadly, will have excruciating pain associated with one disease or another. But even if we do not have that experience, the fact is we are all terminal. So what is an alleged “right to die?” It is a contrivance of the culture of death which, based on what has just been stated, has no basis in fact.
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