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Cases have been piling up recently over the hot topic of euthanasia. One of the most publicly contested cases was that of Terri Schiavo. In her case, confusion arose over who had the power to keep her alive. To those who make laws, situations such as these could be avoided by passing a law that strictly regulates euthanasia. Euthanasia touches people in ways other topics can’t because you don’t want others to be in pain, which is solved by euthanasia, but you don’t want people to kill themselves, which is against most religious views. Euthanasia has roots as far back as Greek and Roman times, but around 1870 is when the first resistance to it surfaced in the United States (Emanuel).
One of the earliest written examples of euthanasia was in 1516 in the book Utopia by Sir Thomas More in which he suggested that people “end their lives willingly either through starvation or drugs” (qtd. in Emanuel). Euthanasia continued through history and during the 1800’s a new way of......

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