EUTHANASIA

1a. George must've thought it was best thing to do seeing as Lennie always got in trouble. He must have thought that he had no choice, that maybe Lennie was better off dead. And in a way he thought he might be saving Lennie a lot of trouble in the future because he knew that Lennie will get in trouble again and again, and each time it might get even worse. In a way I can understand him; it must have been a very hard thing for him do.

1b. I’m in between on that note. I mean maybe Lennie would have liked to make the choice for himself, but seeing as he can’t really understand, he wouldn’t know why he needed to make the choice in the first place. It probably was the best thing for Lennie; it was better that George did it than that someone else in the future. I myself would have never have been able to do what George did.


2a."Late last year, 67-year-old Beppino Englaro, won an intense 10-year legal battle to allow his daughter's feeding tubes to be removed, saying that was her wish." This quote means that the father did what he did because that is what his daughter wanted. To do what he did, to let his daughter go, must have been the hardest thing for him to do. I don't think he would have done it if she hadn't wanted to.

2b."The court accepted that before the accident, his daughter had expressed a preference for dying over being kept alive artificially." I think the quote explains it all. It was the best thing to do because she knew it was the best thing. She herself did not want to live an artificial life; she would have rather died. And so her father did what was best, which was to do as she wished.

2c. I'd have to agree with what the father did. I mean if I was in the daughter's situation I'd have said the same thing: I'd rather die than live with tubes attached to my body; or to not be able to see,hear, and be with that people I love the most. And if my daughter told me that she did not want to live that way then I'd do what is best for her, even if it killed me in the inside.


3a. To try to imagine what was going through the father's mind is not easy. I just don't know what kind of thoughts lead to killing your family and then yourself. He could have been thinking that there was no way he was going to be able to take care of his family without a job. He must have been thinking about his kids; about how he wouldn't be able to take care of them. I'm not really sure what he meant about "why leave our children in someone's else's hands." He could have meant that the children will never be happy and would suffer even more than if they stayed in the situation they were in; or he could meant that he didn't want other people to bother with them, seeing as he couldn't have been able to take care of them in the first place. His grandmother said that he worked all the time, which probably meant he was very proud and dedicated to his work. So being the proud person that he was he must have thought that he didn't need help, or he must have not wanted the help at all. All-in-all, there could have been hundreds of thing going through his mind, but only he knows the real thoughts and reasons that lead to that horrible decision.

3b. Well talking to your kids always helps. Explain to them what mistakes you've done and try to give them advice. Being invovled with them and and their education is also a good thing to do. But I think that the best thing to do would be to just be with them. Tell them that you would do whatever it takes to support them. That's all a parent can do in a situation like that.