The Advanced Medical Directive Act (AMD) is a legal document that patients can sign to allow the doctors to cease using any life-sustaining devices if one is terminally ill or unconscious. However, many people argue that it is no different from euthanasia and to some extent, suicide. To me, the AMD truly is another form of euthanasia because it serves to end your life and allieviate all you suffering, just as euthanasia does. The moral and ethical implications are similar too.

To begin with, the AMD would cause our loved ones great pain and suffering. When we fall into a coma, our loved ones would always stay by our side and wish that some day we would wake up. If we were to sign the AMD, our loved ones would have no choice but to watch us die peacefully yet sadly. Just as our loved ones cannot bear to see us die through euthanasia, they would not bear to see us die through AMD either. Besides, we have always seen in movies how painful is it for someone to take off the loved one's respirator, which is equivalent to murdering them. Similarly, they cannot bear to see doctors removing the respirator from us if we are in a coma. They would start to blame themselves for failing to stop us from signing to AMD when we are the ones who firmly chose our destiny.

Moreover, signing the AMD is morally wrong and should be breaching the law, just as commiting suicide and euthanasia does. Many countries condemn the use of euthanasia albeit it being 'mercy killing', because if one is dead then there is no chance for one to regain his life, but if we allow the person to remain in a coma there is still chance that he might come back after years or decades. If we are thinking from their perspective, AMD destroys this chance of survival but if their loved ones signed it, they have no choice but to watch their loved ones die when this death could either be prolonged or avoided.

Secondly, on the theological frontier, AMD is a direct affront to many religions. Who are we to play God, by disrespecting his plan for us and ending our lives sooner than God expected? In Christianity, God made us in his image hence he is the omniscient and divine ruler of our lives. Since the AMD serves as a form of suicide through indirect euthanasia, we are scoffing at his ability to control our lives by signing the AMD. What if God had planned this tragic coma as a segment in our lives and expected to wake us up after some time? If we sign the AMD, we are preventing his ability to do so, which is the biggest theological sin.

In conclusion, the AMD is a form of euthanasia both morally, ethically and theologically. The best remedy for AMD is to abolish it completely. If we ban euthanasia and prohibit suicide, we must also do so for AMD. It is not logical for a jurisdiction to contradict in this way, since it passes the message "It is okay to carry out euthanasia and commit suicide, so long as it is done in the name of the Advanced Medical Directive Act." In a nutshell, we must discourage AMD as much as we discourage euthanasia and suicide.