"Mercy" Killing

1a..

I think that George's perspective for what he did to Lennie was for Lennie to stop suffering and instead of someone else to kill him it was better for George to kill him. Lennie was suffering where ever they went and no matter what he always got in trouble. Someday he was bound to get caught and someone was going to kill him and might as well make it George. It would have been harder for George to see Lennie get killed by someone else and it would have been too emotional for him. George killed him because he actually had a reason and he wanted Lennie to stop suffering mentally and emotionally.

1b..

I think that it was the best thing for Lennie. It was the best for him because things where always difficult for Lennie, he always got into some sort of trouble and then they had to go to a new ranch and get a new job. Lennie always forgot hings and he wasn't living a good life. He always dreamed of having a place of his own with George and that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. I also think it was the best thing because it was good the George killed him and not Curley and all his workers. It was better that George killed because then if he would've seen Curley kill him he wouldn't have gotten one last chance to talk to him and tell him the story of them two.

2a..

"Late last year, 67-year-old Beppino Englaro, won an intense 10-year legal battle to allow his daughter's feeding tubes to be removed, saying that was her wish."
I think that the father's reason for removing his daughter's feeding tubes was that he knew his daughter was suffering and 17 years is a very long time and he just didn't want to see her keep living that way. He knew his daughter well enough to know she would like to have those tubes removed. If he was passionate enough to battle for 10 years to get the feeding tubes removed then he was sure hes daughter would have wanted to just die peacefully. Those 10 years were worth fighting for what was better for his daughter and even more worth it if his daughter wanted.

2b..

"The court accepted that before the accident, his daughter had expressed a preference for dying over being kept alive artificially."
I think that it was the best thing to do for the daughter. She didn't deserve to suffer in that way. Especially if she preferred dying instead of living off artificial machines. It's bad enough to know that your daughter is hurting inside and you want her to stop suffering but it took 10 years for her to finally be in peace. It was the best thing over all too because her family was probably tired of seeing her in that state and they knew she preferred to die.

2c..

I agree with what the father did. I agree because he knew that the daughter wanted to die instead of being kept alive by tubes. The daughter wanted to die so why not let her do what she wanted. Why would someone keep this poor lady alive even though she wanted to die?! She was suffering she needed to stop and she wanted too. No one had the right to strop her from doing what she wanted especially in the state that she was. I agree that it was the best thing in this case but it also depends on the case of the person, so this does not necessarily mean i agree to euthanasia.

3a..

I think that this was what going through the father's mind while contemplating "mercy" killing:
. "What am i going to feed my kids?"
. "How are we going to survive as a family?"
. "Who are we going to leave our children with?"
. "We can't leave them alone."
. "We can't leave them too suffer."
. "I don't want anyone to keep our kids."
. "We have to take them with us, that's the only way i will be peaceful."
The father was paranoid about not having money to support them.

3b..

Parent's can support their children to succeed in life by encouraging them to keep going to school. By their kids going to school they are helping them a lot because they are more likely to succeeded and the good thing is that schools are free and they don't require money. They could also give them moral support by telling them that things will be okay and that they where going to have to sell their house. They could have told them that things might be rough but in the end everything was going to be good. They didn't have to resort to killing because they could have kept trying to get their licenses. Maybe their families could give them a little help with money if they needed a lawyer to get their licences. The kids would have understood if their parents where short on money because they lost their job. The material things aren't necessary to live, the thing that they needed most at this moment was love.