Now tell me, what would you do if your loved one was laying in a hospital bed, suffering from an incurable illness and there was nothing that could be done for them. The medication from the doctors is beginning to wear off and the pain is unbearable. The expression on their face tells it all. There is nothing that c

Euthanasia should be an acceptable practice when someone has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and there is no chance for a decent quality of life. In the early 1990's, forty states had passed laws that made "living wills" legal. These wills make it legal for a competent individual to decide in advance that they wish to withhold life-support systems and medicine that would sustain their lives. If an individual is declared "brain dead" be a licensed doctor, it is at the discretion of the family members to terminate the life-support system. Beside the medical ethnics issue, there is also the cost of keeping individuals on life-support when there is no quality of life. Sometimes a family spends their entire life savings keeping someone alive. This takes a mental toll also, having to decide when to go and visit and the feelings of guilt that

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