For example, the Select Committee on Medical Ethics of the British House of Lords defines euthanasia as “a deliberate intervention undertaken…ending a life, to relieve insurmountable suffering”. In the Netherlands and Flanders, we speak of “termination of life by a doctor at the request of a patient”. Although these countries may have a different way of defining euthanasia, the intentions remain the same, namely to help those who suffer to be able to move forward without pain. However, the word itself has different meanings depending on usage. The words first experience belong to the historian Suetonius, who described how the Emperor Augustus died quickly in his wife's arms while undergoing the euthanasia he had desired. Thus giving the implication of a peaceful death. The word was first used in a medical context by Francis Bacon in the 17th century, describing it as an easy, painless, happy death in which "the responsibility of the physician is to relieve the sufferings of the body." In common usage, this can be defined as "the painless incitement to a quick death". All argue that euthanasia is a simpler and more peaceful way to choose when and how