The euthanasia theme keeps coming back for public approval like a recurring decimal. Dr. Kannamma Raman has accurately put forward the pros and cons in the above essay. She has made a fair case of the positions taken by each side. However, when each side has a stand that is unable to accept the first principles or major axioms of the other, the polarisation is complete. It seems that all that is left is for the reader to accept the one and reject the other.