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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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When Choices Become Obligations
Hmmm
This verified expert has perhaps forgotten what this argument is all about. Nowhere in this title is the word duty. The definition of right is defined as an entitlement or freedom, while duty is defined as an obligation or allocated task. Clearly the right to die is far different than the duty to die. The elderly have the duty to die? That is an absolutely ludicrous statement and does nothing to support the argument that the terminally ill have the right to die if they so choose. And then the writer further augments the ridiculous argument with the notion that advocates of the right to die are pushing for some sort of legislation that obligates the elderly to die. Am I missing something? Are all the people commenting on this argument missing something? I don’t think so.
- Big Mac
March 1, 2009 5:06PM
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