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If you were a terminally ill patient, would you refuse treatment and asked to be discharged from the hospital, so that u could die in peace? How far would you go to protect your own rights as a human being? Would you hire a lawyer to fight for the right to choose to die? Do you think a person has a right to choose whether they live or not? For those of you who have not read the play, “whose life is it anyway?” by Brain Clark; you would probably disagree with those statements. Euthanasia, by definition, is the practice of mercifully ending a person's life in order to release the person from an incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death, and is a key theme in the play. Whose life is it anyway is an ironic tale, where doctors and nurses are cast as villains, for fighting to preserve life; and the protagonist proved his sanity by providing a reasonable, logical argument for his right to choose to die. The play is full of black, sardonic humour, which is used to lighten up the dark situation.
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