EUTHANASIA

One of the most controversial issues has been the question of legalizing the right of a dignified death or euthanasia. Like capitol punishment, or suicide, euthanasia involves the deliberate taking of human life. Euthanasia is killing someone for the sake of mercy to relieve great suffering.
This issue has fascinated and troubled sensitive and concerned people through the centuries. Plato, in The Republic condemned physicians who allowed patients to suffer from lingering death and suggested euthanasia. Derived from two Greek words meaning good or easy death euthanasia is often called "mercy killing" because the motivation is to act humanely toward one who is suffering.
On June 5, 1998 United States attorney general Janet Reno declared that doctors who prescribe lethal medicine to terminally ill patients would not be prosecuted. Oregon State's Death with Dignity Act which was passed by voters in 1994 permits terminally ill patients to request lethal drugs to......

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