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    The Right To Die Opinion Essay Sample

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    Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is a controversial issue facing society. The document discusses three main reasons why euthanasia should be legalized. First, some patients who are in a coma or terminally ill have no chance of recovery and are only being kept alive through artificial means. Second, the high medical costs of prolonged artificial life support can cause financial burdens. Third, keeping someone alive with no hope of recovery causes emotional and physical strain on loved ones who want to avoid prolonging suffering. The document argues that when recovery is impossible, terminally ill patients should be allowed a dignified and painless death.

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    The Right To Die Opinion Essay Sample

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    Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is a controversial issue facing society. The document discusses three main reasons why euthanasia should be legalized. First, some patients who are in a coma or terminally ill have no chance of recovery and are only being kept alive through artificial means. Second, the high medical costs of prolonged artificial life support can cause financial burdens. Third, keeping someone alive with no hope of recovery causes emotional and physical strain on loved ones who want to avoid prolonging suffering. The document argues that when recovery is impossible, terminally ill patients should be allowed a dignified and painless death.

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    Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is a controversial issue facing society. The document discusses three main reasons why euthanasia should be legalized. First, some patients who are in a coma or terminally ill have no chance of recovery and are only being kept alive through artificial means. Second, the high medical costs of prolonged artificial life support can cause financial burdens. Third, keeping someone alive with no hope of recovery causes emotional and physical strain on loved ones who want to avoid prolonging suffering. The document argues that when recovery is impossible, terminally ill patients should be allowed a dignified and painless death.

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    The Right To Die Opinion Essay Sample

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    Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is a controversial issue facing society. The document discusses three main reasons why euthanasia should be legalized. First, some patients who are in a coma or terminally ill have no chance of recovery and are only being kept alive through artificial means. Second, the high medical costs of prolonged artificial life support can cause financial burdens. Third, keeping someone alive with no hope of recovery causes emotional and physical strain on loved ones who want to avoid prolonging suffering. The document argues that when recovery is impossible, terminally ill patients should be allowed a dignified and painless death.

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    The Right to Die

    A difficult problem that is facing society is the legalization of euthanasia,


    another word for mercy killing. Euthanasia is a method of causing death painlessly
    to end suffering. People who are in a coma because of accidents and elderly people
    who are terminally ill because of incurable diseases are being kept alive by
    artificial means. They do not have a chance to recover, but American laws do not
    allow doctors to end their lives. However, in my opinion, euthanasia should be
    legalized for several reasons.
    The first and most important reason to support euthanasia is that these patients
    have no chance of recovery. They can never lead normal lives and must be kept
    alive by life-support machines such as respirators to help them breathe and feeding
    tubes to provide them with nutrition. They are clearly more dead than alive and
    will never be able to live a normal life. For example, after Samuel, an infant, had
    swallowed a balloon, he stopped breathing. The balloon was removed, but the lack
    of oxygen had caused brain without the aid of a respirator, and there was no hope
    for his recovery.
    Another reason to support mercy killing is that medical costs are very high.
    Today the cost of a hospital room can be as much as $1,450 per day for basic care,
    which does not include the cost of specialized care or the use of special equipment.
    The high cost of medical care can cause financial problems for the family. For
    example, Charles Adkins eighty-two-year-old wife lived in a nursing home in a
    coma for four years. Since there was no chance for her recovery, Mr. Adkins
    requested that the medical staff withhold treatment. However, his pleas were
    ignored. Soon after she died, Mr. Adkins was billed $250,000 for his wifes
    medical care. The courts ordered him to pay the bill, which must have placed
    terrible financial burden on him.
    The final reason to support the legalization of euthanasia is that the family
    suffers. The nurses and other hospital staff can give the terminally ill patient only
    minimum care. Thus, the family must spend time a car for the special needs of
    their loved one. For instance, Nancy Cruzan was kept alive on life-support
    machines for eight years. She would never recover from her vegetative state.
    However, during those years, her loving, caring parents visited her regularly.
    In the end, because terminally ill patients have no chance to recover and to live
    normal lives, they should be allowed to die with dignity. Therefore, the family
    should have the right to ask doctors to turn off the life-support machines or to stop
    further medical treatment. To prolong life artificially when there is no hope for the
    future is a tragedy both for the patients and for their loved ones.

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