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Euthanasia and assisted are usually done with a motive of love or compassion and with a od as painlessly as one can fathom, it is nothing more than a peaceful . A lot of people think that euthanasia is the most humane way to help someone reach an unavoidable unpleasant . Why is this humane? Why could the physician not alleviate some of the person’s pain with medication and help them through their illiness, not help them by them or assisting them with their ? Modern medicine has the ability to control pain. The patient who is seeking to kill him or herself to avoid pain does not need assistance in but a doctor better trained in alleviating pain (NRLC 1). Jack Kevorkian, better known as “Dr. ”, invented the most famous machine ever used (Humphry 160). In his essay,” A Case Of Assisted ,” he attempts to explain his morality. He describes his first case of assisted . He speaks of his first patient, Janet Adkins, describing her as “a remarkable, accomplished, active woman-wife, mother, grandmother, reverend friend, teacher, musician, mountain climber and an adorable person- who for sometime, had noticed (as did her husband) subtle and gradually progressive impairment of her memory” (Kevorkian 643). Mrs. Adkins had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease several months earlier and decided that she did not want to live through the difficult obstacles that this horrible disease would force her to encounter. She and her husband had contacted Kevorkian for his assistance in her .
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