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James Rachels cobblers last and Dying     James Rachels is one of the almost controversial philosophers talked aboutin todays society. One of his most talked about topics is whether a mortal hasa advanced to die or not. Not much is known about Rachels waitress for the manyarticles and books he has written. In the controversy of permitting a psyche dieor cleanup spot him, he does not try to relieve which method is good and which methodis bad. He however tries to explain why they both are bad to a certain degree.Rachels does not attain one side, but tries to convince why one is better than theother. In his opinion, letting a soul starve to death or that putting him outof his misery by killing him is an ongoing struggle. If you let a soulfulness starveto death, it might be putting that person with a lot of pain but hell stillbe alive (who knows, maybe a miracle cure will be found.) If you killed him onthe spot with a lethal injection, it would be a mor e nonviolent death but youwould be shortening that persons life. Putting a person to death in a peacefulmanner is called euthanasia. euthanasia is an antediluvian patriarch word that means "easydeath." there is also the issue of morality. Would killing almostone by theirown will or suicide be a moral act? What about a patient that is woe from pubic louse? Is it moral to let that person suffer? These are some of the manyquestions people have been trying to answer for year without success.     Euthanasia is a very uncomfortable subject to talk about for most peoplebecause who wants to think about having to kill oneself or a person that is dearto his or her life. Even though nobody wants to go through the hardship ofdeciding whether a person should live or die, it happens everyday. There aretwo forms of euthanasia. There is an active euthanasia and a static euthanasia(Jussim 7-13). This so-called distinction between active and passive waschallenged by Rachels in a paper first published in 1975 in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine. In that paper, Rachels challenges both the use and moral logical implication of that distinction. He argues that active euthanasia is in manycases is more tender-hearted than passive euthanasia. Rachels urges doctors toreconsider their views on active euthanasia. He writes "To begin with afamiliar type of situation, a patient who is dying of incurable cancer of thethroat is in terrible pain, which can no longer be satisfactorily alleviated.