mostly because they feel that as a democratic country, we as free

individuals, have the right to decide for ourselves whether or not it

is our right to determine when to terminate someone's life. The

stronger and more widely held opinion is against Euthanasia primarily

because society feels that it is god's task to determine when one of

his creations time has come, and we as human beings are in no position

to behave as god and end someone's life. When humans take it upon

themselves to shorten their lives or to have others to do it for them

by withdrawing life-sustaining apparatus, they play god. They usurp

the divine function, and interfere with the divine plan.

Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death

persons who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or

handicaps. It come from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is

commonly called mercy killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when

incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put

them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to

withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical

"Costs and Benefits". Perhaps the most disturbing risk of all

In the case of the terminally ill, that means people have the right to

The reasons just stated in favor of euthanasia are often over

The way you talk you'd think people have absolute right over

possible that there would be no hospice movement today. The

treatment". If euthanasia had been legal 40 years ago, it is quite

significant part of the society around them. We should be very worried

a human being who was due to die in any event'. In spite of this

other groups? If the mongoloid is to be deprived of his right to life,

one who is incurably and terminally ill and couldn't survive without

dignity, in life and in death. Just as we respect people's right to

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