"Mercy" Killing

1A.
-George probably decided to end Lennie's life because it would make thing a lot easier for him and in some way, Lennie too. Certainly, he did not want to do it, but he thought that it was one of the final options. The best option. He would've hated to see his good friend brutally murdered by angry farm men who were not going to take it easy in anyway. Instead, he decided to do it himself, in a much faster way.
1B.
-I mean, being killed is not the best thing for anyone, but in Lennie's case, there is no longer the struggle for survival. What i mean by this is that there was just so much trouble being caused by Lennie, and Lennie was getting himself into some trouble too. It was just harder to live life with out any complications all around. There definitely was another way to do things, but regardless this is how it did happen.

2A.
"Late last year, 67-year-old Beppino Englaro, won an intense 10-year legal battle to allow his daughter's feeding tubes to be removed, saying that was her wish."
-This father clearly believed that after 17 years, it was time to pull the plug on his daughter. It's what she wanted. And he only fought so hard, for so long to give her what she wanted.
2B.
"...,his daughter had expressed a preference for dying over being kept alive artificially."
-The good man was only trying to meet her daughter's request. It had been much too long, and it was time to come up with a decision. Luckily, he was able to base it on his daughter's words. What better way to die, than the way you preferred to?
2C.
I would have to agree with the father's decision, and i can say this because i am putting myself in his position. The way i look at it, there's no point in living, if you can't live for yourself. Being on life support; you are restricted. And being in a vegetable state, well your helpless. So do you die, or continue living off of machines? There comes a point where someone else has to make that decision for you. I myself would prefer go out easily, and not struggle. And i would hope that someone would choose that as the best choice for me if such thing were to happen. Then again, everyone thinks differently.


3A.
-This father unfortunately lost hope. He was scared of the outcome, so he decided to quit the game early. He was probably drowning in emotional thoughts such as:

• "Why did all of this happen?"
• "How badly are we going to suffer from this?"
• "How am i going to support the kids now?"
• "I've let my family down."
  
• "She says we should kill ourselves. It might be the only way."
• "We have to take the kids with us. We just can't leave them with anyone else."
• "This is what they wanted. So we have to go."
• "There's no other way out. This is the easiest escape."

Ervin was paranoid about how he could possibly become incapable of supporting his family, because he believed that there was no way that he could ever be employed again.

3B.
Clearly, there were other ways to go about this situation. I believe that it was up to he parents to morally support their children, but sadly they failed. What they could've done was reassured their kids that everything was going to be okay. Sure they were in a huge slump, but in time they could've found their way back to the top. They also lacked encouragement. His wife, Ana, was in no way a confident person in order for her to suggest that the family is better off dead. Ervin, the father, was neither hopeful or confident that things could turn out alright at the end. So they gave up. At this breaking point, their licenses shouldn't have mattered. What did matter, was the kids. They needed to know that the lighter things in life sometimes come at the darkest hours. So they should've encouraged their kids to succeed in school so that later in life they would have greater opportunities. A lot things could've been changed. Now if only there was going back.