Should euthanasia be legalized?

William (China)

The right of a terminally ill person to avoid excruciating pain and embrace a timely and dignified death should be respected. Besides, the medical cost of the terminally ill patients is often astronomical to lots of patients. They have no money to cure their illness and have to wait for death painfully. Why not let euthanasia help them slide into eternity with dignity, without pain, with their loved ones present.

An electronic voting board shows the results of a vote on a new law to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of any age at the Belgian Parliament in Brussels February 13, 2014. Belgium becomes the first country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of any age on Thursday when its lower house of parliament voted on a new "right-to-die" legislation. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir