Euthanasia Mercy Killing
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Sue Rodriguez has reminded us all of our own mortality and our need to
think carefully about the kind of society we want to live and to die in.
Sue Rodriguez was known through the media, and her well spoken and eloquent
speeches. People painfully in support of what she believed in, watched as
her ....
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.... person causes the death
of another, the consent of the deceased does not provide the person who
caused the death a defense to criminal responsibility. Is there a
difference, do you think, between a person who, at a dying person's request,
prepares a poison and leaves it on the bedside for that person to take, and
a person who helps the patient to drink it or who administers it directly
at the request of a dying person who is unable to take it personally? Is
there, in short, a real distinction ....
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