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A 5 page exploration of the personal issues entailed by the controversy swirling around the practice of euthanasia. The author contends that euthanasia should be a personal option and not one dictated by either law or hospital policy. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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surrounded by numerous controversies and dilemmas. Indeed, euthanasia is without a doubt one of the most controversial topics of our time. It is not a new controversy, however.
Philosophers have argued for centuries over the moral and ethical appropriateness of euthanasia. Contemporary philosophers, in fact, are just rehashing the same issues which occupied the more ancient
philosophers of the world. From a personal perspective, euthanasia should be a viable option for terminating ones own life. The issues at stake in euthanasia are, in fact,
inextricably intertwined with a persons right to self determination. There are two types of euthanasia. In passive euthanasia the patient
is removed from hospital equipment such as resuscitators or feeding tubes which are believed to be sustaining their life. In contrast, in the more controversial active euthanasia the
patient is administered a drug such as morphine in sufficient quantity to cause their death. While there is still heated debate over active euthanasia or what has been come
to be referred to as mercy killing or physician-assisted suicide, some contend that there is not enough justification to deny a terminally ill patient passive euthanasia. Physicians and nurses
often object to actively participating in active euthanasia on the basis of their professional codes which explicitly prohibit the taking of life (Curtin, 1995). These same professionals recognize the
ethical significance of such decisions and actions (Vergara, 1995). Passive euthanasia, allowing the patient to die by suspending a medical treatment
or withdrawing a medical treatment, has become to be more accepted to the general public and the medical community than has active euthanasia, however. While this development has been
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