The fact that Euthanasia is illegal in New Zealand has not stopped some from making the decision to end their own lives or that of others. Many cases pop up over the years, Margaret Page being the latest. Margaret had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage many years ago and now at the age of 60 refused to eat or drink anything because she no longer wanted to live.
In 2004 Lesley Martin admitted to giving her mother a dose of Morphine and suffocating her with a pillow. She was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed. Also a few years back there was the case of a man who gave his elderly mother a fatal dose of morphine to aid her through her last moments, he was charged with murder.
Cases like these are showing us that legalising euthanasia is a slippery slope to legalised murder and is it just matters of time until doctors are given the right to end life instead of save? Will there no longer be a Hippocratic Oath taken upon graduation from medical school?
Some countries have already decided to cross this dangerously fine line between mercy killing and murder. In 2003 voluntary euthanasia was legalised in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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interesting interesting. man, i see how this can be seen as a bad thing. i just cant choose. flip.
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