Euthanasia

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killings and suicides
of the helpless but powerful, the light will soon burn out. There will be
no energy in the world. Euthanasia 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 euthanasia. This is used constantly in debates to
pass laws for making euthanasia 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 euthanasia. There are two forms of euthanasia, active and
passive. It is the passive euthanasia that many people are accepting, the
less harsh of the two. That's why people generally say 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 ...

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The family will spend
the rest of their lives wondering in agony and pain about whether or not a
cure would have been found or if the patient would have made it out of the
coma. It wouldn1t be right to spread the pain by adding to the fire. But
some say, 3Why waste the money and extend the pain and agony by keeping
someone on a machine?ý We need to look at life in a more positive way. We
need to weigh the matters evenly. What1s 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 ...

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