Euthanasia
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Public opinion for and doctor assisted suicide has always
been mixed. A poll that was taken by the Gallup Organization in Canada
during July 1995 proves that people are starting to see the advantages of
. The first question that was asked was:
"When a person has an incurable disease that is ....
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.... life-threatening but causes that person to experience
great suffering, do you, or do you not think that competent doctors should
be allowed by law to end the patient's life through mercy killing, if the
patient has made a formal request in writing?"
As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening, the
general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no may be thinking
of treatment that has not been tried yet or treatment that may come in the
future due to new te ....
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