Essay Archive - Euthanasia
Euthanasia
An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child
with AIDS, and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors
with the O.K. of their families. But is it really 3O.K.ý? Euthanasia, or
doctor-assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen
story building or taking a gun to one1s own head. Certainly society frowns
upon suicide, but yet putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is
being accepted every day. Society knows that suicide is bad, but
euthanasia is even worse. The guilt and blame of a lost life is falling on
the hands of doctor1s that we are supposed....
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