Is euthanasia mercy killing or just killing? 18/09/2016

A 17 year old terminally ill boy has become the first child in Belgium allowed to die by euthanasia. I cannot even begin to imagine the unbearable pain of a loving parent to watch a child die. To play God and decide who should live or who should die takes a special kind of character. Is the acceptance of the decision of a seventeen year old boy to be helped to take his own life an acceptance a step too far? A seventeen year old is not old enough to vote, not old enough to get married or become a parent,yet is old enough to decide whether he wants to live or to die.