medical technology of today, it is possible to keep a person alive even if brain dead, by the use of life

support machines and other life sustaining equipment. The debate is that when a person is at a dead

end, either in a coma or having been diagnosed with a terminal disease that ends in death, should that

person be able to have the right to choose to die by an assisted suicide. Here are the opinions of

those for it. In todays world, medical technology has advanced so much that it is now possible to

sustain life through formerly life ending injuries or illneses. An alternative to the years of suffering

and pain, is an assisted suicide. What exactly is an assisted suicide? Well, it is providing the means,

like drugs, by which a person can take his or her own life. Right now there are only two places in the

world that it is legal to have an assisted suicide, or a physiscian assisted suicide where a medical

doctor assists in directing the suicide of a dying patient. Those two places are the State of Oregon in

report that was written concerning a lecture given at Harvard Medical School. It was given by Dr.

to cure or at least slow down the life-ending disease. Unlike Dr. Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide

many of the critics of euthanasia is that a person should die when God says so. In this critiscm it is

is also said that a person under care of a hospice company can live out their last months in comfort

Northern Territory of Australia. There are strict guidelines on determining whether

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