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Euthanasia wouldn’t have faced such support and public interest if it weren’t for numerous individuals, who have put in countless efforts in both drawing international and national attention to end of life issues and describing the concept as humane and ethically permissible.  Jack Kevorkian was one of the movement participants, who wasn’t shy to express his opinion about the matter, among other things. He was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent, best known for terminating a patient’s life via physician assisted suicide. In hopes to change the views about this necessary pain relieving practice, the brave doctor participated in his first assisted suicide in 1990, 4th of June. He assists Janet Adkins, one of Hemlock Society members, a society which played a crucial role in the advanced revolution of granting people their rightful human rights, in committing suicide in Michigan. In November 1998, Jack publicly shows a videotape of him injecting a lethal inoculation to...

Before the coming of Christianity, attitudes toward infanticide, active euthanasia, and suicide tended to be tolerant. Although the Hippocratic Oath prohibited doctors from giving a deadly drug to anybody, not even if asked for, or from suggesting such a course of action, few ancient Greek or Roman physicians followed the oath faithfully and instead gave their patients the requested poison. With the rise of Christian beliefs and its teaching that life is a trust from God, euthanasia was prohibited. It was opposed because it was viewed as inconsistent with the human good and with responsibilities to God. It was condemned because it injures other people and the community of which the individual is a part and the violation of God’s authority over life. This position represented attitudes about suicide that prevailed from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Reformation. Many started opposing the church, its authority, and teachings, including euthanasia and suicide.  While...