I am not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what I'll have to go through to get there” (Pamela Bone). The feeling of dying or losing a loved one is a conception that has tormented any family member at one time or another. How does one deal with the difficulty of burying a loved one, the bills, and not waking up to see them or call them every day? More so, will this person suffer when they leave their physical form? Euthanasia, or assisted suicide, gives a person the opportunity to take control of the end of their life and make an otherwise undefined decision about how they want their final moments to unfold. In this article, I intend to show that, based on the utilitarian perspective, Rachels' writings, and considering human rights constructed from a governmental perspective, euthanasia is right. and morally acceptable and should be considered a reasonable means of expiry when an entity is in difficulty. suffering from chronic mental, emotional or physical pain. James Rachel's explains in his 1986 work The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality that when death is the only escape from chronic, pervasive pain, it is justifiable to participate in, or help someone achieve, assisted suicide (Rachels 312). What types of things cause “chronic, pervasive” pain? Cancers, terminal illnesses, physical trauma, overwhelming mental and emotional pain; Most people think that these types of abnormalities will affect older people, and this is true in most situations. But what should we do for an eight-year-old child who suffers from a neuromuscular disease? She has the mentality and emotional response of a toddler and she never fully developed to enjoy life. Now she arrived at the hospital and is only alive...... middle of paper ..., why does suicide seem weak? Is it because it is easier to consider someone weak than to see that society has shaped us to understand that by putting an end to our own pain, we take the initiative into our own hands and therefore react against the conformity that we have been conditioned to feel? If this is the case, then we represent much more than the value of property to the government; one that seems to fall into a negative cognition of how the rest of the country generally looks in terms of morale and happiness. Works Cited Ebrahim, Nargus. “The ethics of euthanasia”. The Australian Medical Student Journal. 3.1 (2012): 73-75. Rachels, James and Stuart Rachels. The Right Thing to Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print. Rachels, Stuart and James Rachels. Elements of moral philosophy. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print.