Monster Essays - Euthanasia
Euthanasia
This is the scenario: You are terminally ill, all medical treatments acceptable to you have been exhausted, and the suffering in its different forms is unbearable. Because the illness is so serious, you recognize that your life is drawing to a close. Euthanasia comes to mind as a way of release. The dilemma is awesome. But it has to be faced. Should you battle on, take the pain, endure the indignity, and wait the inevitable end, which may be weeks or months away? Or should you resort to euthanasia, which in its modern language definition has come to mean, “help with good death?” (Humphry 20).
Death is one of the few things that all human ....
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