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Euthanasia.

This is a very difficult topic to discuss or write about. After reading this book I strongly believe in it, but after thinking about it for a while I realise what all the negative aspects of it are.

You may think that the right thing for the doctors to do with Jim was to take his life just to spare him the suffering. But (and that is a big but) how could they know that his mind where working!? For all they knew he was just a piece of brain dead meat that they had been able to keep "alive". But seen from Joe's point of view the only right thing to do was to take his life.

But then again moral comes into the picture like in all other questions mankind ask herself.
• Are we authorized to take another persons life without becoming a murderer or a beast?
• But on the other side, if you don't help him/her (I will be referring to "her" from now on) because you don't want to lose her, wouldn't that make you an egoist!?

I believe that some might say that the......

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