Die With Dignity - Euthanasia
Date Submitted: 09/15/2003 16:44:18
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 4 pages (1083 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 4 pages (1083 words)
Recently, with Massachusetts making gay marriages legal, we have been hearing a lot of arguments on whether gay unions are right or wrong. Five years ago, it wasn't gay marriages and Massachusetts that was in the news, it was Oregon and Euthanasia. Euthanasia, as defined in The American Heritage Dictionary, "The act of painlessly ending the life of a person for reasons of mercy". Most of us think of it as ending the life of …
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…be able to afford the cost of it. If that does not occur I only predict a rise in the number of men and women having physician-assisted suicide.
Works Cited
"Euthanasia." The American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed. 2001
Dority, Barbara. ""In the Hands of the People': Recent Victories of the Death-with-Dignity Movement," Humanist July/August 1996:93
Hedberg, Katrina. Interview. Bob Edwards. Morning Edition NPR. 1 August 2003
Byock, Ira. "Why Do We Make Dying So Miserable?" Washington Post 22 Jan. 1997
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