It was a cold and foggy December morning in the city of Amsterdam. Birds chirped, dogs barked and alarm clocks rang to wake the sleeping city. “Time of death? asked the doctor. “6:24 a.m.,” the nurse replied, looking down at the watch on her wrist. For the nurse, this became a normal routine. The patient was a woman in her 50s who had been hospitalized for about a week now. She had suffered a stroke and was hospitalized by her family. The woman was very dynamic and had an optimistic personality. She was kind to her doctors and nurses and loved to laugh and joke with her daughter and grandchildren when they came to visit. She seemed to be doing very well. That is until today. Murder was the first thought that came to Megan's mind as she left her mother's hospital room, tears streaming down her face. The death of her mother came as a complete shock to Megan. She paced back and forth on the cold floor of the hospital hallway thinking, “How could this happen? I visited my mother yesterday, she was doing much better and we were expecting her to be released from the hospital soon. Although Megan's mother responded well to her medication, doctors at the hospital feared she would never fully recover from her illness. Faced with this prognosis, doctors stopped Megan's mother's medication and stopped her diet. The practice carried out by these doctors is murder, but also a form of euthanasia. Euthanasia has been a widely controversial topic within societies for thousands of years. Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing, involves ending a patient's life by stopping treatment or using a lethal injection. Euthanasia is often used if a patient desires death,...... middle of paper ......lied to kill the patient, which is prohibited in most countries. Works cited Boisvert, Marcel. “Should doctors be open to euthanasia? : Yes. Canadian Family Physician 56.4 (2010): 320-2. Internet. February 17, 2014. “Euthanasia”. Random House Dictionary. Random House Inc, 2014. Dictionary.com Web. March 1. 2014. Fenigsen, Richard. “The lives of others: reflections on medicine, ethics and euthanasia. » Problems of Law and Medicine 27.3 (2012): 231-53. Internet. February 16, 2014. McHale, Jean. “A right to die or a right to live? Stop medical treatment.” British Journal of Nursing 20.20 (2011): 1308-9. Internet. February 16, 2014. Miller, Franklin, G., Robert, D. Truog and Dan, W. Brock. “Moral fictions and medical ethics”. Bioethics 24.9 (2010): 453-60. Internet. February 16, 2014. “Top 10 advantages and disadvantages of euthanasia. » ProConorg Titles. Np, and Web. February 20. 2014.