Euthanasia : for and against FOR: At any one time, over 10,000 patients in Canada are in a permanently vegetative State (Bender, 34). In addition, thousands of profoundly handicapped infants are born each year. As life- sustaining medical technology continues to improve and lengthen the process of dying, those numbers will steadily increase. This, along with several other factors, is why euthanasia should be legalized throughout the world. Allowing doctors to administer a lethal dose is much more …
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…to kill Works Cited 1. Cassel, Christine. "Morals and Moralism in the Debate over Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide". Waltham: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1992. 2. Cantor, L. Norman. "Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying.". Bloominton, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. 3. Barnard, Christiaan Neethling. "Good Life Good Death". Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980. 4. Bender, David et al. "Euthanasia--Opposing Viewpoints". San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1995. 5. Hofsess, John. "Born Free--but we die in chains." (http://www.rights.org/deathnet/born_free.html).