““This morning we celebrated the release of Roberto” She told him. “It was wonderful.””(Lowry 31). This common ritual described in Jonas’s community in Lois Lowry’s The Giver may sound unusual for us, but Euthanasia does exist in our world today. In The Giver, Jonas learns that the life he has been living in the community was a lie. Assisted suicide does happen in our world today.
Assisted suicide happens all around the world today. Some countries have it and others don’t. The debate on whether or not assisted suicide should be legal has been going on for years. In France assisted suicide is illegal, but in 2005 the leonetti law made the concept of the right to be “left to die”.(Euthanasia and assisted suicide laws around the world