Immorality of Euthenasia in The Giver by Lowis Lowery

Do you love your grandparents? Do you want them to be euthanized for being old? IN The Giver by Lowis Lowry the old are euthanized for being old. The newborns that are not sleeping through the night are killed to. And people who can’t seem to get anything right are killed for just that. Lowry reveals the immorality of euthanasia in the scenes depicting the Euthanasia of the identical twin, Jonas's reaction to the true meaning of release for the old, transgressors, and non-conforming infants, and his final rescue of Gabe.
First, Lowry shows how the Euthanasia of children is immoral. When Jonas learns what release is he is discussed. This is further emphasized because his father is the one performing the release and, because the release is of a newborn. In the following passage Jonas is reacting to a video of his father “releasing” a new child “He killed it! My father killed it” (150). Jonas’s reaction loudly states that euthanasia is not good. The next passage is what his dad does after he kills the newborn. “Then he picked up a small carton… and lifted the body into it. He laced the lid on tightly… he opened a door in the wall…it was the same sort of chute that trash was deposited into” (150). His dad’s lack of a negative reaction shows how well the community has taken feeling from people. His dad has no reaction whatsoever as if this is just another day at the office. This is the immorality of euthanasia.
Next, I will talk about euthanasia of the old. In The Giver there are no grandparents. When Jonas gets the memory about Christmas he says that with grandparents it felt a “little more complete” (126). Because Jonas In this scene likes the lov...

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...ffering. As in any debate there are two sides to the argument over whether Euthanasia is a moral thing. The PHI 227 Biomedical Ethics page says that euthanasia “releases physical suffering” and “allows patients to value quality of life more than the length of life” One saying is that the Quality of life is more important Than its quantity. This means that it is better to live a short happy life than a sad long one. On the other hand in Atlanta if you asist in a suicide or euthanization your can be punished. Those charge say that “they didn’t participate they just offered the means” These people are not killing the person they are giving them “exit” means. It’s like giving someone a knife. It’s not stabbing them. IN the end euthanasia is in places accepted and in others not. If it is voluntary it can do good but, if misused it treads a slippery slope.