Euthanasia: Assisted Suicide for the Dying
Rebecca Veal
University of Phoenix
Com 125 Utilizing Information in College Writing
W9A4
Instructor: Elena Asher
August 13, 2006

Euthanasia: Assisted Suicide for the Dying
Only among the human race is it accepted that we allow another human being to lie in pain and suffer a slow agonizing death while we stand by and do nothing when the inevitable outcome is death. Humphry declared, "It is not always easy to die, even when a person is mortally ill and desires a quick end" (2006, p13). Although it is considered a crime to assist in a death is it not morally wrong to stand by and watch someone, whether it is a loved one or stranger, who wishes to end his suffering, endure an agonizing painful death? If the person desires and has made known the desire to end his life for reasons of terminal illness are we bound by law to watch them suffer or obligated by compassion to assist?
There is not one person who neither has the......

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