Nathan Haase

Mr. Green

Current Issues 302

10 December 2002



Euthanasia: When life is to be feared more than death

...the elderly patients...are comatose. They weigh

practically nothing. Their skin hangs in heavy

folds on their skeletons. ‘These patients must be

fed through gastric tubes pushed down their throats,'

Dr. Peter Haemmerli explains, and that can make even

comatose patients retch and vomit' (Culliton 1273).

Thus, according to Barbara J. Culliton, many severely ill patients must endure much pain.

Not a very pretty scene, is it? Is it right to keep them living in this pain? Wouldn't it be

more humane to give them a painless release from their agony? For this irreversibly comatose

patient euthanasia would be justified. Now consider the patient suffering from malignant cancer

or some other terminal disease.

How "right" is it to keep injecting drugs and performing small operations to keep the

patient alive,......

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