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

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 profession contend that too

massive bills incurred by many patients in the last weeks and months of

the rights explosion: the right to die...

The crucial issue is whether the evil of the abuses would be so great as to

protect life. The second precept is that we have the negative obligation

the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the

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

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