EUTHANASIA: AN IGWEBUIKE PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This paper focuses on Euthanasia in Igwebuike Ethical Perspective. It investigated the understanding of people regarding the euthanasia for African bioethics in Igwebuike perspective. The aim of this paper is to analyze the philosophical position of euthanasia, which the study further strengthens, through a critical appraisal, the danger of decriminalizing the practice in Igwebuike philosophical stance. The study also employed analytic and social survey methods of inquiry and made the findings that when pronounced the euthanasia, the two separate camps of irreconcilable proponents and opponents are drawn up. Although it is widely accepted that murder is crime under any law, a clearly defined stand has not been taken on euthanasia. In fact, the debate over euthanasia is not a recent phenomenon. Over the years, public opinion, decisions of courts, legal and medical approaches to the issue of euthanasia in Igbo-African society have been conflicting. The problem of the connection between right to life and right to die has been attempted in a few debates, and this necessitated this research on euthanasia in Igwebuike ethical perspective. This work submits that the Igwebuike populace sees euthanasia as an unnecessary paradox, murder in disguise, a situation where the supposed healer becomes a killer.