Euthanasia
(Essay)
Euthanasia is a big controversy in the society today. According to the "Oxford Dictionary," Euthanasia (yoo-thã-nay-ziã) is defined as: the bringing about of a gentle and easy death for a person suffering from a painful incurable disease. Euthanasia helps bring a peaceful and painless death. People wont have to go through painful incurable diseases. People have the right to what they want and instead of committing suicide they can die with dignity. Euthanasia should be legalized so people who are suffering from pain can die in high spirits. Euthanasia can end painful human suffrage.
Euthanasia helps bring a peaceful and painless death. The patients are put to sleep by means of lethal injections. First the patient is put through anesthetic drugs and then the patient is either given pentobarbital for rapid unconsciousness and death, or potassium chloride, which is cardio-toxic, meaning it will cause the heart to stop working.
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