Euthanasia

It's pretty hard for anyone to lose someone you love. A funeral is never a funeral without someone crying, lamenting, or being unusually quiet. Death is usually associated with sadness and grief. A saying goes, 'we grieve not for the dead, but for us. We should be happy for them as they are now in a happier place.' Personally, I think this saying holds a lot of truth. We should be happy for those who have passed on. This brings us to a more complicated question: 'If we should be happy for those who have passed on, then do we have the right to be the cause of their passing?'
I personally do not believe that anyone has the right to take away another's life for any reason whatsoever. No matter what condition he is in, we were not meant to decide when or where a person has to die. As the fifth commandment states, 'Thou shall not kill.' Death should never have to be an option.
This leads to a rather ironic realization. Man is known for being the only being that kills his own kind for no reason whatsoever. Man is also known as the only being who can actually stop or prevent death.
It seems that our medical marvels have made us rather arrogant, in a way. We have conquered disease after disease after disease, and we have made our life spans longer. With the convergence of technology and medicine, there is practically no common illness we cannot stop. Lives are saved everyday. People rejoice because they are given the chance to live longer. We have begun to feel so invincible that when it is really a person's "time", we suddenly enter a crisis.
Through the years, we have found ways to keep the body fit and active through artificial means. These means, however, require money to be used. I believe, that this is the reason why euthanasia began. Artificial life supports give us hope, but when all our money is gone, we have nothing else to do but "pull the plug". Hospitals should be more lenient with the money they force people to pay. Of course, they have to make a living, but they must also do their job. Hospitals were made to make people's lives longer, not more miserable.
Some people think that euthanasia is a way to end one's suffering. Don't we all suffer? Its not just as most people try to hide their sufferings and our conditions are not emphasized because we are "normal". Besides, wouldn't you make a person suffer even more if you deprive him of his basic needs? Forcibly stopping someone from getting food and water is one of the most horrible things you can do. These are patients, not prisoners of war!
Euthanasia is a very fragile issue, and there are many different factors to be considered when the act is being planned. But, no matter how grave the circumstances may be, I hold firm to may stand on euthanasia. It should not be done.
Death education is another related topic that also covers death. Personally, I think death education is a good thing, as it teaches people on how to deal with death and the like. However, death education, as far as I can see, is coming out in extremes. Either it's being taught way too deep, or not being taught at all.
As young kids, kids should be aware of how to react to death in a more not-so-obvious manner. storytelling. Lots of tales have death in them, only they're not so devastating because they're usually heroic. When they've matured, sometime in the early teens, I think it is best to have death education, not as a regular lesson, but as a seminar or something like that. It is good to be made aware of death to be prepared for it when it comes. Death is sometimes so alien to some people they are completely shocked by it. Others see it so much from the wrong media they act as if death is a normal day-to-day thing. Death education can be the means of making people accept death. Through this, I think we can be really happy that the ones who have passed away are truly in a happier place.