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 doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really O.K.? Euthanasia, or doctor assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen story building or taking a gun to ones own head.
Society frowns upon suicide, but putting an old lady or man in a coma to death, is being accepted everyday. Society knows that suicide is bad, but Euthanasia is even worse. The guilt and blame of the lost life is falling on the hands of doctors that....
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