Mr. Kass' argument that doctors will begin performing unnecessary euthanizations is an unfounded standpoint. He believes that doctors will begin euthanizing patients that are "chronically but not terminally ill" or in some cases doctors will actively euthanize patients that are "Unruly or resist doctors best efforts." (Pg. 1001) Mr. Kass does not show evidence to substantiate his claim. He does use a surv

Mr. Kass's essay is a well-written essay, but the reason his arguments were not persuasive to me, were that of he didn't have the evidence to support his theories. If he had done more research and looked at his arguments from the other perspectives then he would have realized that his argument that doctors would begin euthanizing patients for unjust reasons was not supported enough by his survey, he could have found more solid information to substantiate his claim. He also could have not used moral issues as a support, because after all moral issues are not a support but merely an opinion. Had he corrected these points then his essay would have been convincing and persuasive enough to influence ones perspective on "Why Doctors Must Not Kill."

There is a third key point that Mr. Kass fails to expose in his essay, and that is the fact of economics of artificial life support. The process of using man made machines as tools for keeping people alive in the event that there body will no longer support it's self is a very costly procedure. The machines that are used for life support are multimillion-dollar units that are not readily available to all people; those people who are able to take use of these machines are

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)