Looking for a Better Death

Keywords: Euthanasia, assisted suicide, moral, physician assisted suicide, Looking for a Better Death In the last century medical science has made dramatic progress improving the quality of health care and becoming capable of extending not only the life span of human life, but also the dying process, in frequent instances beyond the limits many people would find tolerable or acceptable. As a result, dying patients have started to search for the ways to control the …

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