Euthanasia

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of the helpless but powerful, the light will soon burn out. There will be no energy in the world. and doctor-assisted suicide should not be accepted or allowed by the government and people of the United States.
Statistics show that seventy-three percent of the U.S. population approved of some form of . This is used constantly in debates to pass laws for making legal. But the people are deceived by this number. When the poll was taken, the people were asked if they approved of "some form" of . There are two forms of , active and passive. It is the passive that many people are accepting, the less harsh of the two. That's why people generallysay they approve of it. If a separate question was asked or the people were informed of the difference, we would find that only thirty-eight percent of the population approves of active suicide, as used by Kavorkian. So the fact that people approve of is irrelevant because only thirty-eight percent would actually pass a law if they knew ...

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patient would have made it out of the coma. It wouldn't be right to spread the pain by adding to the fire. But some say, "Why waste the money and extend the pain and agony by keeping someone on a machine?" We need to look at life in a more positive way. We need to weigh the matters evenly. What's more important, the life of a family member or trying to save money and pain. Clearly it is the life, nothing is more important than that.
Approximately one billion dollars is spent on life support patients annually. But the cost of keeping people alive is irrelevant if there is a chance that they may be cured or come out of a coma. More importantly, we need to look at the reasons why it's used, ...

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