Euthanasia
The term euthanasia comes from the Greek easy death, from euthanatos, with eu meaning good or positive and thanatos meaning death (M-W.com). Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides, and Terri Schiavo's tube removing. Dr. Kevorkian has assisted over nineteen suicides. Terri Schiavo was a 41 year old woman who fell into in a constant vegetative state because of an eating disorder she had as a teenager. In 1990 she fell into this vegetative state at the age of 26. On March 18 of 2005 her feeding tube was removed and on March 31 see was announced deceased. Only fifteen percent of Americans think doctors and nurses should always do everything possible to save a person's life. It also showed that eight in ten adults approve of state laws that allow medical care for the terminally ill to be removed or withheld, if that is what the patient "wishes", whereas only thirteen percent disapproved of the laws. Also seventy percent......
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