EUTHANASIA An Eighty-seven Year Old Grandmother On A Respirator, A Newborn Child

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Term Paper Title	EUTHANASIA An Eighty-seven Year Old Grandmother On A Respirator, A Newborn Child
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EUTHANASIA          An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS,
and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors with the O.K. of their families.  But is
it really łO.K.˛?  Euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a
fifteen story building or taking a gun to onešs own head.  Certainly society frowns upon suicide, but yet
putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is being accepted every day.  Society knows that suicide
is bad, but euthanasia is even worse.  The guilt and blame of a lost life is falling on the hands of
doctoršs that we are supposed to trust, and even worse, the family members themselves.  A doctor is to be
known as a healer, not an agent of death.  A family is supposed to love and support, not kill and
inherit.  Every person makes the light of the world brighter.  The world needs everyonešs power and
contribution.  Itšs the power and energy of the elderly, and the s!
trength and will of the ill, that give the world life.  The light has become very dim with the crime and
corruption in todayšs world, we canšt afford to throw lives away because some think theyšre meaningless.
If we continue to accept the merciless 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 łsome 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.  Thatšs 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 people approve of euthanasia is irrelevant because only thirty-eight percent
would actually pass a law if they knew that Kavorkianšs methods would be allowed.     However, it is
said that passive euthanasia, suicide by the removal of life support, is a long-time practice for
hospitalized patien...

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