Euthanasia

As I have said before, it's not the words you use, it's how you use them, and I'm sorry if copy pasting but I had little time to do this argument. In the first constructive it really dosn't matter at all so really, just stop being cry babies. Refute my opponent's refutations: 1) Lets get something straight here, suicide (in this debate) is taking one's own life. Euthanasia, is taking someone's life with their consent, especially if they are in excruciating pain, I think that it is justified. 2) This debate is not about America or anything, it's just about whether or not you think Euthanasia is right according to the definition! That point is down. 2a) //no body, including the government body, has the power to take away the right of life. Making euthanasia legal is directly violating this right. // Let's get something straight, so we're saying that, "We can't end your extreme misery because a law says so" First of all, all laws can be changed, and what they meant by that law was "We can't kill you for no apparent reason" the government CAN kill WITH reason. For example, death penalty. 4) //here is a right to life; a right to death would contradict the American Declaration of Independence. // If there is a right to life, why isn't there a right to life, may I remind you that this debate is not necessarily about AMERICA, just on the topic of Euthanasia. 5) Since when did saying things never happened be a debate strategy? Though I do not understand this point could you explain in the next round please? Refute my opponent's points: 1) //Palliative care, however, is an act of giving medication or treatment to make the suffering patient comfortable, but not to intentionally kill them// So let's let the person with a disease eating away at their brain die comfortably. .. hmmmmmm isn't that the same thing as Euthatnasia, exept without the painless part? Just because you're comfortable dosn't mean you're feeling no pain. I would like you to expand on this "palliative care". 2) //Giving someone medication to intentionally kill them is definitely not considered a healing art// First of all, Doctors don't only specialize in the healing arts, in fact the second definition of doctor is "someone liscensed to practice the use of drugs" obviously to euthanize someone is to use drugs. That point is down. 3) //The patient asks to be killed, and the doctor gives them something to end their life! If a suicidal person suffering from an illness (as stated in my previous definitions), and they asked to be killed, a doctor would not prescribe them a treatment to do so// Here's the difference between a suicidal person and a person who is suffering from an illness: A suicidal person may have more to live for in life, a person suffering from an incurable, painful disease obviously doesn't. The suicidal person may discover the next day that he has a new hope. The ill person will not, and cannot. It's sad stuff, but it happens. 4) //Euthanasia takes away the right to life. // I would only agree with this if we were debating homocide. .. Euthanasia is with the consent of the patient, who is going through a painful, incurable disease, who WANTS his right to live taken away, it's like you have the right to protest, but not everyone does. It's like forcing the right to life on EVERYBODY. If there is a right to life, as I have stated before, there should be a right to death. When we get ill should not be the only time when we accept death, people should be able to accept death when they feel it is their right to die, they have nothing more in life, exept pain and suffering. They just want to get to the afterlife quicker and not have to endure this extreme pain.