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WHY SHOULD EUTHANASIA BE LEGALIZED?
Title: WHY SHOULD EUTHANASIA BE LEGALIZED?
Category: Literature / English
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WHY SHOULD EUTHANASIA BE LEGALIZED?
It is apparent that euthanasia should be permitted everywhere for the following reasons: individual liberty; one’s undesired pain, suffering, and misery; and the individual’s frustration from having a valueless life. First of all, one should be able to understand the term euthanasia. “In ancient Greece, eu thanatos meant ‘easy death.’ Today’s euthanasia generally refers to mercy killing, the voluntary ending of the life of someone who is terminally or hopelessly ill” (Euthanasia 1). …showed first 75 words of 1393 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1393 total…The emphasis of euthanasia should be placed on the purpose of the act, not the nature of the act (Bender 50).
Works Cited
Behnke, John A., Sissela Bok. The Dilemmas of Euthanasia. Garden City: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1973.
Bender, David L. Problems of Death. St. Paul: Greenhaven, 1981.
“Euthanasia.” Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia. Softkey Multimedia Inc., 1996.
Hagen, Richard C. Death and Dying. St. Paul: Greenhaven, 1980.
Mabie, Margot C.J. Bioethics and the New Medical Technology. New York: Atheneum, 1992.
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