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With names like Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Terri Schiavo making international headlines during the past few years, the complicated subject of euthanasia remains on everyone's mind. But when considering the plight of the terminally ill and their potential suffering, is "pulling the plug" a matter of dying with dignity or tragically playing God?
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Killing People is Murder
Definition of murder
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder %5B1%5D
Main Entry:
mur·der
1: the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malice
Main Entry:
mal·ice
1 : desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
The keyword here is MALICE, which, according to Webster's dictionary, is the intention to cause pain, injury or distress. A physician who assists a consenting, suffering, terminally ill adult in ending their own life is doing just the opposite of this. Rather than imposing pain and distress, the physician is ending the pain and distress that is inevitable with the patient's condition. Everyone should have control over their own life, and if the only thing that person can physically do is lie in bed and suffer, it is more malicious to force them to do this than it is to allow them to peacefully end their life.
- SSNickel
February 9, 2009 9:10PM
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