Veronica Mora Post # 3

"Mercy killing" for me is actually a good thing to do, better then dying slowly and feeling the pain and being in a misery. I know it is not easy for someone to end there life in a instant, but knowing that you are suffering form sickness or being in  horrible pain, is something you don't want to go through for you whole life. Also for me it means killing animals going through pain when there old or have a illness, i think it better to kill them fast which for me it is called "put to sleep" or "put down". A lot of animals are put down by injecting them with a dose of sodium thiopental or pentobarbital. For example in the book Carlson convinced Candy that it was best to end the old dog life (page 46), which Carlson tells Candy to shot the dog right on the head so he won't feel any pain. I have the same opinion on humans and animals mercy killing, why keep on suffering by dying slowly,  when you can just take a pill.