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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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Do the Terminally Ill Have a Right to Die?
Saving Others When You Can't Be Saved
If I was in a vegetative state in the hospital...I would understand if they "pulled the plug." If someone else needed my organs to keep them alive and I was not using them for anything but to lay in bed unconscience I would want to give them up. There are people out there that have a greater chance of survival if they just had some sort of a transplant than those who are in a vegetative state, therefore saving the ones who CAN be saved...just makes since.
- Keri
January 25, 2009 7:15PM
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