Mercy Killing: The Perpetual Debate

Mercy Killing: The Perpetual DebateIn a recent case of cruelty and negligence, it has been revealed how a woman was left to die in the final hours without help. This was then compared to how people wouldn't treat a dog badly, but would neglect a person and let them die.

Geraldine McClelland, a former TV producer, aged 61, came to Switzerland due to some problems, and was left to die there without assistance.

Rules are basically made to keep people abiding by law and order in the country. But what when they sometimes seem to suffocate people by the restrictions they put on them? They tend to make people helpless at times and this makes them totally unnecessary, totally missing the point and nothing more than a mere burden on the shoulders of people.

There is so much being done for animal rights in the country, but whatever happened to treating humans as humans before that? It is important to mend the rules in such a way that they can be exempted in life threatening situations.

Suicide laws are something that has ever since been a matter of huge controversy, but what's the point of living a life and dying each day instead?

"Yet Britain is so primitive and dichotomist in its thinking that suicide is only acceptable when one has what is normally a transient motive like depression. It's legal when able-bodied but not when someone is so ill they need assistance", said Nick Ross from BBC Crime watch

Mercy killing is something frowned upon as being unethical and unlawful, but come to think of it, there is no point of living a life that is like dying every single day, and there is need for change in this scenario, by making amendments in laws