Zika, the tropical virus that originated in Africa around 1947, has been devastating Latin America and the Caribbean. It has affected more than one million people in Brazil, and close to 4,000 babies have been born with microcepahly, a condition that leaves newborns with smaller heads and brain damage.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are practices that have a long history of blurring the lines between being simply issues of legality or morality. As it stands very few countries in the world currently legally employ the uses of euthanasia or assisted suicide.