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Euthanasia is the act of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment. This is a topic with many opinions and much controversy as to whether or not it should be a legal practice. I have never known anyone close to me with an incurable disease, but if a loved one or I were diagnosed, I would like the option to end the suffering to be available. Therefore, I am pro euthanasia, and furthermore, pro individual choice.
There are two essays I have recently read on the subject, each gives two different viewpoints on the topic of euthanasia. In Sidney Hook's In Defense of Voluntary Euthanasia, he believes that "each one should be permitted to make his own choice-especially when no one else is harmed by it."(404) Hook is pro euthanasia, contrary to Rand Richards Cooper, the author of The Dignity of Helplessness: What Sort of Society Would Euthanasia Create?" Cooper says "I'm looking......
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