Euthanasia And African Culture: A Religious-philosophical Appraisal

ABSTRACTEuthanasia can be defined as well or good death which was intentionally done in order to relieve pain or suffering. This project work is expository, scholars have written in favour of the practice of euthanasia, there are also arguments against euthanasia. Discussions on euthanasia usually revolve around medical legal and moral issues geared at determining the extent to which a physician may, feel obliged to acede to the request of the terminally ill patient to bring to a graceful and his/her pain and suffering by assisting the patient to die. In some jurisdictions physicians are statu…