For Active Euthanasia A person is in the hospital dying from an incurable disease. He is in excruciating pain. His body is withering away and the medication he is taking is only prolonging his death. He decides he wants to stop his treatment so he can die quickly. The doctor withholds his treatment but the man does not die for another two weeks. During those two weeks, he endures an enormous amount of pain and suffering. The pain and suffering could have been ended quickly by giving him a lethal injection, but that would be mercy killing and the doctor could not do that. So the man lies there and suffers tremendous pain until the day of his death. Some believe that letting som