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Title: Euthanasia
Words: 4694
Today, many of the hotly debated social issues are those which involve personal choices. Of all these issues, none arouses more emotions than euthanasia [mercy killing] ("Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: All Sides", 2). Is the decision to kill oneself a private choice about which society has no right to be concerned? Should doctor-assisted suicide be legalized? Has our society lost its understanding of the sanctity of human life? Are we pushing the medical profession to assume one of God's prerogatives ___ deciding when life should end? Historically the public has been able to rely on the medical profession to be on the side of life. Life was to be preserved and suffering was to be alleviated. Physicians were not to lower the health standards of the patient or ...
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