Euthanasia: Ending Life with Dignity

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be legal. People should be able to make decisions on their own, especially if it involves their own welfare.
Kathleeen Foley, MD, Professor at the Department of neurology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University said “ The word euthanasia was coined from the Greek language...in the seventeenth century by Francis Bacon to refer to an easy, painless, happy death. In modern times it has come to mean the active causation of a patient's death by a physician, usually through the injection of lethal dose of medication” (title procong.org). There are three categories for Euthanasia. Voluntary Active Euthanasia is when the patient expresses their wish to die voluntarily. Passive Euthanasia is letting someone die by omitting life saving treatment. Non- voluntary euthanasia is when the person is not able to tell people what they want and they are euthanized without their consent (procon.org).
All humans have the right to choose privacy on their own lives. Society has always been an ...

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a heart attack are considered lucky from dying in such a peaceful way unlike those who slowly die from terminal illness. Prolonging someone's life is not always better than ending a life. The thought of death is very scary for most people. Nobody wants to suffer. People wish to die free from pain but in reality and in most cases that is not how it happens.
Doctors are the ones that helped us to come to this world. It is a sin to even think about doctors becoming killers by refusing treatment to a patient. Euthanasia is not about doctors becoming killers. It is about patients going through constant pain. A pain that never stops even with prescribed medications. To deny a patient help ...

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