sucicide

EUTHANASIA An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS, and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really ³O.K.²? Euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen story building or taking a gun to one¹s own head. Certainly society frowns upon suicide, but yet putting an old …

…re looking for. There is nothing ³Nazi² about testing drugs and cures in hopes of saving a life. There is no torture or direct result of death. So, in actuality there is no physical agony or pain saved in euthanasia because that¹s not what the patients are going through. It just shortens the mental and physical pain that can be helped in other ways than death. Either way, suicide is no answer to pain.