Newspaper Report 1

Newspaper article: Catholic Church condemns euthanasia!
Date: 3 November 2008

Summary
Euthanasia, also called mercy killing, is publicly criticised by Archbishop Nicholas Chia: the head of Singapore's Catholic church. Archbishop said that one cannot choose death and asked to be killed. The Archbishop announced that answering mercy killings shows the false compassion in you, to show true compassion is to give the patients psychological support. However, people said that they want to end the pain that their loved ones are undergoing. But the Archbishop said that it is not up to us to decide whether one should die, only an immortal is able to do so.

Reflection
After reading this article, I feel that we should not resort to euthanasia no matter how much pain your loved ones are going through. We do not have the authority to end someone's life. If we try to carry out euthanasia, then you are indirectly killing your loved ones. We must not yield to another person's request to mercy killing. We must show our moral support to the sick and this may show thwm that they may recover. Therefore, I feel that euthanaisa should be banned!