The Right to Life

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there is a planned out death time for each individual and it also comes along with a natural way of dying as well. Some humans will live longer than other’s, and that is the way of life.

The key point is that it is the individual’s life and the decisions they make throughout that will lead to the end of their life’s journey. All deaths should be from natural causes. I wish that everyone could die peacefully, without pain, but many natural causes of death include an illness

or internal malfunction that was not influenced by external forces (ex. someone passing away from cancer or someone having an extreme heart attack which leads to the stoppage of one’s heart). The natural way of death is moral and just, and it should be the only reason why people die. The only person who should be in control of their death is the actual person dying them self. There should be no secondary influences that force them to go sooner.

Connecting to homicides, many couples turn to abortion for a source of birth control. However, some people may not know that it can only take 48 to 72 hours for a baby to form in the womb. At that point, if the couple does go through with an abortion, it is considered murder because they are killing the baby that was just created. In 2003, 41 600 000 abortions were reported worldwide. In 2008, 43 800 000 abortions were reported, increasing the previous recorded rate from 2003 up by 2 200 000 murders (http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_IAW.html). Each day, we kill off approximately 160 people from our population if we undergo the amount of abortions we had done from these statistics.

I understand if you were not planning to have a baby, but you ended up becoming pregnant. The great thing about the twenty first century is that we have many options for dealing with this scenario. For example, you can accept the fact that you made a mistake and choose to raise the child. Also, after the baby is born, you can put the child up for adoption. Additionally, you could try and talk to your family and see if another member would raise the child so you still

have this baby in your life (http://www.fpa.org.uk/unplanned-pregnancy-and-abortion/pregnant-and-dont-know-what-do). These are some morally just ways to keep the child living, so you do not need to be so hands on with the growing up process if you did not want to be.

This could be connected back to the thesis because it is not moral to kill something, let

alone that it has also done nothing to deserve this punishment. What I mean by that is what I find to be so corrupt about this way of murder is that the tiny infant has no chance to save itself. When you are alive and on the earth, you can try to runaway from a bullet, or fight against cancer, but when you have an abortion, the child can not react and has to face the fact that they will never be able to take a first breath because the opportunity was snatched out from right under them. The child was created by an act of irresponsibility, and if the couple does go through abortion, the infant is paying for its parents mistake.

Relating to permanent mistakes, capital punishment is another immoral way to die. This is when the law kills criminals as a source of punishment. It is a very controversial subject, and I believe I understand both sides to supporting and trying to diminish this form of punishment. However, I do not support capital punishment because it is extremely hypocritical.

Every area worldwide that has capital punishment in their law system has different rules on who is sentenced with this kind of punishment. The main offences for criminals who are sentenced to the death penalty would have had to committed intentional murder with multiple aggravating factors, first degree murder and/or capital/aggravated murder (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/crimes-punishable-death-penalty).

The different forms of capital punishment is through lethal injections, where the executor injects fatal chemicals into the prisoner, who is strapped to a chair or bed where they can not escape, and soon the chemicals override the blood and cut off circulation to the heart and brain; electrocution, where the prisoner is tied to a chair, has electro-pads attached to them (in some areas of the world, they pour water on the prisoner to get more of a secure, intense shock), and is shocked with electrical impulses until their heart stops; gas chambers, where the prisoner is contained in a locked room, and gas is released through the ventilation system until it consumed into the prisoner’s lungs and they suffocate; hanging, where the prisoner has a noose tied around their neck and the floor drops beneath them to snap their neck, which in most cases, instantly kills them; and a firing squad, where the prisoner is contained in a cage and the officers shoot them until they are mutilated or noticeably dead (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/methods-execution).

In my opinion, capital punishment is a horrible crime. It is ironic how murderers are being killed for what they have done, but the people who are murdering these prisoners are seen as heroes and are protectors for the good of society. I believe that when someone goes through with killing these prisoners, they are just as bad as the people who are contained on death row.

It has been proven that almost 20% of people on death row are completely innocent and they were simply just at the wrong place at the wrong when an incident had occurred. These people who are innocent are killed because of bad lawyers, corruption in court, evidence that was tampered with, etc. (http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=49). This means that the government that have approved capital punishment is killing people who literally did nothing, and they do not get a second chance at life to redeem themselves or prove that they are not guilty.

For the criminals who have confessed or admitted to their murders, or have been caught red handed, I believe they should rot in jail for the rest of the their life. The guards do not need to

give them the royal treatment, but they do not need to kill the prisoner. The government could lock the criminal in a 4x4 room without blankets and a bed, with little amounts of foods and an

hour of fresh air a day. This way, I believe the prisoner will have more time to realize what they did, and that horrific actions result in a horrible life style. Killing off these convicted murderers is completely the easy way out for them, and it is proven that the death penalty does not decrease the crime rates where it is implemented (http://deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=82). This is the easy way out for the criminals, so I believe if we lock them up in a non ideal living situation, it would be more beneficial towards society, the prisoner