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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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