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Article: STUDENTS SPEAK OUT: Should voluntary euthanasia be legal for the terminally ill?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 8, 1990
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Recently, a retired doctor was charged with setting up what has
been termed "a suicide machine," to be used by a terminally ill
patient. The device would trigger a lethal injection when activated
by a control held by the patient. The doctor said that he simply
gave the patient the final choice of when to die. Prosecutors said
he was an accessory to the crime of suicide.
Do you believe voluntary euthanasia (medically assisted suicide)
for the terminally ill should be legal? Should doctors be the ones
to perform it? How does euthanasia relate to the Hippocratic oath?
Is there any difference between the currently accepted "living
wills," which limit the amount of care a patient wishes to ...