Case Study Euthanasia Is it okay to painlessly kill a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma This issue is not as black and white as thou shall not murder because it often includes the consent of the patient or is a situation in which the patient is not thriving but merely surviving Should patients be kept alive using ventilators even if doctors feel like there is no way to help them recover Does it count as killing someone if you take away the only thing that is keeping them alive or is their quality of life so bad that it is not worth it Sarah and Jeffrey Jones were a happily married couple in their late 40s who led relatively healthy lives and had 3 adult children Jeffrey Jones had a medical condition that affects the immune system causing it to attack the nerves which can result in the victim being paralyzed It was the paralysis that made him unconscious and unable to respond when doctors ran the tests to determine his condition after he was rushed to the hospital Mr Jones was hospitalized and unable to move or control his bodily functions and the man was pronounced brain dead after he was no longer responding to brain scans and reflex tests
