euthenasia
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Euthanasia is a highly debated subject amongst religious leaders, government officials, medical professionals, and people in general. It is a sensitive subject that to some means loss and tragedy, and to others freedom from pain and suffering. Euthanasia is simply a form of medical treatment, and like all the other treatments should be available to the patient. The government must allow this option to the people and cannot interfere with the "right to die".
There are options to treating a problem. People as a society decide how to treat these problems in a way that would either benefit the society or cause no harm to any other person as a result to this decision. With certain restrictions Euthanasia could serve as a liable substitute to ending the lives of suffering and terminally ill patients. Oregon has already instituted a "Death with Dignity Act" that allows assisted suicide, and in the first year of the law being affected it allowed fifteen lives to end with a help of a doctor. To be able to qualify for this treatment the patient must be terminally ill and have less than six months to live. "Attorney General Janet Reno has given a major boost to the nation's first assisted suicide law by deciding that physicians may provide lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients without losing their licenses to write prescriptions...