State (Bender, 34). In addition, thousands of profoundly handicapped infants are born each year. As life-

sustaining medical technology continues to improve and lengthen the process of dying, those numbers will

steadily increase. This, along with several other factors, is why euthanasia should be legalized throughout

Allowing doctors to administer a lethal dose is much more merciful to dying patients than allowing them to

die slowly and painfully from a terminal disease. Everyone must die. And almost everyone comes to a

point where they, or a loved one, knows they are dying and must decide what to do. Euthanasia will mean

the act of ending the life of a person, from compassionate motives, when he/she is already terminally ill or

when his suffering has become unbearable.

People who, perhaps because of a serious illness or perhaps for reasons unrelated to their illness, are

extremely depressed and say they want to die. These people are not different than anyone else who thinks

about suicide -- they just have medical problems in addition to their emotiona

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