Essay Archive - Euthanasia
Euthanasia
Should a patient who has lost all powers of reasoning and who lives
like a vegetable, totally hopeless and helpless, a terminal case who only
wants to die, be forced to live? The number of people who are asking this
question increases each day. Although the official position of the medical
profession is to maintain life indefinitetely, regardless of the condition
of the patient, but with certain cases, euthanasia should be administered.
We are living in an age of medical miracles. Medicine, has made so
much dramatic progress, that lifesaving techniques were thought to be
impossible, a generation age. Ill patients throughtout....
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