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E-mail: borguesian@earthlink.net It’s been years now since the hospital said that your dad had a terminal disease. The health administration hasn’t found a cure for it and probably won’t for years to come. You hate to see your dad like this. All he can do i ....

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.... like a long and painful death. People would like to die easily or in their sleep. People expect their doctor to relieve them of pain when they are sick. Infact, humans even feel that their animals should be put to death if they are suffering. This is clearly stated by Janelle Rohr when she said, “A dying animal is quickly ‘put out of its misery,’ but no such consideration is offered to the terminally ill human”(136). “Among certain primitive people, the killing or abandonment of aged or helpless members was an accepted practice”(Jonathan Gould and Craigmyle 20). In America we perform abortions, execute murderers and draft young men so the ....