The pro-euthanasia case is promoted and buttressed by stories of ‘bad’ natural deaths, those where great suffering is experienced, and ‘good’ euthanasia deaths, those were suffering is promptly and completely eradicated through the intentional extinguishing of life, itself, by using euthanasia. The case against euthanasia is much more difficult to promote, not because it is weak — it is not — but because it is much more complex. By Margaret Somerville