Euthanasia, or mercy killing, has been in the news more and more recently. Many people are strongly against such a practice, but there is a growing demand to have it legalized. How far do you agree with euthanasia being legal?

Euthanasia, or mercy killing, has been in the news more and more recently. Many people are strongly against such a practice, but there is a growing demand to have it legalized. Do you agree or disagree with euthanasia being legal?

Before we start writing response on this essay task, let me help you understand task and collect some lexical resource. The task here asks you to state your position on whether are you in favour of or against "the practice of  Euthanasia, mercy killing".

Euthanasia by definition means "the practice (illegal in most countries) of killing somebody without pain who wants to die because he/she is suffering from a disease that cannot be cured" - means it's a kind of "painless murder" with a legal permission for a kind intention to relieve the person from some pain or trauma. - The task here, is asking you to suggest your opinion how justifiable is this? 

Some useful vocabulary to be used in this essay.

To enhance your score in Lexical Resource, you need to learn paraphrasing. 

Let's paraphrase some important words/sentences here.

Think, how can you say "euthanasia" in other words ?

 - a right to choose one's own death

 - a painless killing

 - the clinically assisted death

 - to kill someone on their request

 - the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering 

Band 7+ Sample Answer

In last couples of decades, the debate over clinically assisted death rate has become quite common among different cultures. Despite a growing number of terminally ill patients are preferring mercy killing in order to get rid of excruciating pain, I believe making this legalized is not a wise decision due to two major reasons.

Firstly, making euthanasia legal might attract some unlawful uses of such permission. By this, what I mean is, if people get legal permission to end someone's life, chances are high that this permission gets misused. For instance, if a person is suffering with a disease, his family members might kill him for the sake of money or other benefits with the help of legal permission to end his life from under the name of euthanasia.

Secondly, I feel, such a law is not right on ethical ground. Each person has the right to enjoy their every single moment of unrepeatable life, and snatching it from them, is against humanity. The humanity believes in hope and miracles, if someone is suffering with uncurable disease, and even the medical science says there isn't any chance of recovery, there is always a hope of miracle to happen, for the sake of that last hope, we should not end someone's life, merely for saving expenses.

To sum up, though euthanasia might sound somewhat practical approach to many, I feel, it is not at all a welcome decision to make such actions legal even on the name of relief from pain or of saving money for needy generation of the family. Euthanasia is against the law of nature and should be completely rejected in any case, hence, I do not agree with making it legalized. (284 words) 

Important observation, you should note and follow in your writing...

1) Introduction must talk about the subject and state your position clearly. 

- Check my introduction, how has it done this? 

2) In opinion based essay (Agree Disagree Essay) we state our position and support it with valid arguments throughout all paragraphs. 

The layout should reflect this clearly. 

Intro (Introduce topic + state position)  
Body passage-1 (with your own view) 
Body passage-2 (with your own view) 
Conclusion (summarize all ideas + position) 

Read all my paragraphs and compare this layout, observe how have I shared my opinion (in all the paragraphs), how have I supported it with valid arguments (in both the body passages), how have I developed my arguments in body passages, how have I summarized all ideas in conclusion ? 

3)  Your language should use various paraphrasing techniques and vocabulary to talk about the subject whenever you repeat them. (Note that how have I mentioned euthanasia in different words)

4) Your paragraphs must be connected at cohesively organized. 

Read my essay again and try to figure out...why have I written this essay in this sequence only? Overall organization is 4 paragraphs, starting with intro and ending with conclusion. You should further observe that how my body paragraphs are developing sentence by sentence. My 1st in both body passages is an argument, the following sentence is explanation or development in it, which is further supported by an example. Make sure you do this to score 7+ in Cohesion and Coherence. Do not forget to connect your paragraphs with appropriate linkers. (in this essay I have used firstly, secondly, To sum up) 

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