Euthanasia

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or others were made legal, it might easily be abused and people might be put to death for reasons unconnected with mercy.
However, many people see the argument in terms of their own right to die,when faced with the indignity of deterioration, dependence and hopeless pain.

Doctors although do at times deliberately give up trying to keep someone alive for whom there is no hope of recovery. There is a clean difference between giving a fatal overdose of a drug to kill a patient and withholding a drug or some other treatment that prolongs life in painful , circumstances which cannot improve.

There are different types of euthanasia, these are ,Voluntary euthanasia is the expressed wish of a mentally competent person to die through the assistance of others or the self administering of prescribed drugs also medically assisted suicide in order to relieve intolerable physical or mental distress.

Non-Voluntary Euthanasia ending the life of a patient incapable of expressing a desire to ...

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