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Immoral or Human Right?
Recent debates over active euthanasia, "killing" a terminally
ill patient, in Holland, has risen the question whether euthanasia
is immoral or a simple human right. Doctors seem to have no doubt.
They made an oath.
The definition of Euthanasia depends on whether it is active
or passive. Active Euthanasia i only allowed in Holland, and it
means that the doctor takes direct measures to put a patient to
sleep, whereas passive Euthanasia only involves stopping pill
consumption, or stopping treatment. In England, only passive
Euthanasia is allowed.
Euthanasia touches some of the deepest feelings in human
beings. It is the power over life and death, and responsibilities
no one wishes to take, have to be taken. This, of cause, leads to
the ultimatum, that it is the patients own choice. But can we allow
some one to take their own lives? Doesn't this mean that everyone
else around the patient have failed, that more could have been
done?......
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