Many people have beliefs about whether euthanasia is right or wrong, often without being able to define it clearly.
Some people take an extreme view, while many fall somewhere between the two camps.
Dictionary definitions avail us little, as there will always be large groups of people that claim it means something else. The argument then often centres on the voluntariness of the request. Supporters of the voluntary euthanasia movement generally believe that it would be possible to devise sufficient safeguards to ensure that the request was voluntary and that people could never feel pressured. The Dutch are critical of their own system and are continually refining and testing it - though generally they feel that it respects human rights and is part of good medicine. They get rid of the word voluntary since the explicit request is part of their definition of euthanasia.