It was only in the nineteenth century that the word Euthanasia came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease.

Intolerance of Euthanasia is not limited to our own country (with the exception of the Northern Territory). A court case in South Africa demonstrates this quite well. A medical practitioner, seeing his eighty-seven year old father suffering from terminal cancer of the prostate, injected an overdose of morphine, causing his father's death within seconds. The court found the practitioner as guilty of murder because 'the law stated that it constituted the crime of murder even if all the accused had done was hasten the death of a human being who was due to die anyway.'

If Euthanasia were to be legalised it should be stated that the practise of it may be abused. There is no guarantee that people will not take advantage of it. However we do not norm

It was only in the nineteenth century that the word Euthanasia came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease.

Euthanasia should be legal practise. We are a democratic country, and we, as free individuals should have the right to decide for ourselves whether or not to terminate the lives of our loved ones or ourselves.

People have the right to die with dignity. Nobody wants to end up wired into a machine and connected to tubes. Who wants to spend their last days lying in a hospital bed wasting away to something that is hardly recognisable as a human being, let alone his or her former self? Nobody. The very thought insults the whole concept of what it means to be human.

People have the right to die with dignity. Nobody wants to end up wired into a machine and connected to tubes. Who wants to spend their last days lying in a hospital bed wasting away to something that is hardly recognisable as a human being, let alone his or her former self? Nobody. The very thought insults the whole concept of what it means to be human.

The period of suffering can be shortened. Have you ever been in a terminal cancer ward? It is grim. Anyone who has been there knows how much people can suffer before they die. Today our medical hardware is so sophisticated that the period of suffering can be extended beyond the limit of human endurance. What is the point of allowing someone a few more months or days or hours of so-called life when death is inevitable? There is no point. In fact, it is down right inhumane. When someone under such cond

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