Scott's+Letter

Dear Mr .  Smith ,

My name is Scott Hannah ,  a senior at Foothill Technology High school ,  I am writing you on behalf of the subject of euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide .  First and foremost ,  I would like to deeply thank you for all your effort and input you gave our class; it really makes our ethic class feel more substantial and makes the term essays a lot more interesting and purposeful .

After reading a few of your articles and blogs , <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> it has become apparent that you are against euthanasia and that you are a strong believer in the upholder of life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> A few supporters of your beliefs would be the Roman Catholic Church and their 1980 “Declaration on Euthanasia <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” and Alison Davis’s “Right to life of Handicapped <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” Both of these articles support human life and the general quality of life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Although each of these articles along with your’s have some great strong opinions and ideas <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> I regretly have to refute them <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> I believe the quality of life is a higher standard than the duration <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Some same-sided Articles would be Chris Hill’s 1994 “The Note <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” and Peter Admiraal’s “Listing and Helping to Die the Dutch Way <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” Also in corroboration with my beliefs would be Jack Kevorkian <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> the highly controversial “Doctor of Death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” and Ramón Sampedro a man who suffered a tragic accident and was subdued to live in a bed for 29 years as he fought for the right of self suicide <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Due to the rapidly progressing technological state of our medical world <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> the Catholic Church released a “Declaration on Euthanasia” to state the Church’s position on assisted suicide and euthanasia <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Cardinal Franjo Seper stated that “human life is the basis of all goods <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” and “people regard life as something sacred <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” because it is the “gift of God’s love <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> which they are called upon to preserve and make fruitful <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” To the Church <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> life is the greatest gift of all <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> and it is a gift that deserves to be protected and preserved <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Not preserving and upholding life is like throwing out God’s gift and love <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Euthanasia is know to be the end of life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> not preservation of it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> “for it is a question of violation of the divine law <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> an offense against the dignity of the human person <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> a crime against life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> an attack on humanity <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” Basically stating that in no way shape or form should a human being ever take his or another’s life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> because it attacks and destroys what makes us human and our link to God <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Pope John Paul II //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> stated that <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">" To them <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> euthanasia is wrong at all times <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> and under all circumstances <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> I feel that their interpretation of euthanasia and assisted suicide is wrong <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Euthanasia should not be considered some deep and dark taboo that is a <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> “crime against life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” yet a way to enhance to life of a suffering terminally ill patient <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Physician assisted suicide creates a death with dignity which helps preserve the quality of life and death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In addition to the strong beliefs of the Catholic Church <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Allison Davis has many of the same key points about the preservation and quality of life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> In a response to an article addressing the quality of life for handicapped people <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> she writes <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> “Right to Life of Handicapped” in which she gives a first hand example of life as a handicapped and how her quality of life is no different than that of a full bodied being <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Some people feel <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> proven by Maggie in “Million Dollar Baby” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> which life as a handicapped is hard and not worth it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> but Allison fumes <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> “Who could say I have ‘no worthwhile quality of life’?” She claims <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> that “despite my disability I went to an ordinary school and then to university <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> where I gained an honors degree in sociology <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> I now work full-time defending the right to life of handicapped people <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” The so able life of Allison further proves your point that “Million Dollar Baby” “could have ended with an inspiring depiction of Maggie as a teacher <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> or an artist” Life in a wheelchair according to Allison is just an obstacle <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> not a deminer of life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In the exact opposite direction <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Chris hill was a man who suffered a terrible hang-gliding accident which left him paralyzed form the chest down <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> leaving him unable to do the things he enjoyed everyday <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Chris lived the life of what some would call an “adrenaline junky <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” he was a man that “lived life to the max <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” He always tried to “live for today because there may be no tomorrow <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">” For Chris there was a tomorrow <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> but a tomorrow he did not expect/want <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Chris’s injuries made him incredibly depressed <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Being handicapped was not the life Chris conjured up <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> “It’s a challenge <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> many of you said <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Bullshit <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> My life was just a miserable existence <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> an awful parody of normalcy <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> What’s a challenge without some reward to make it worth while?” For Chris life after the accident had no worth <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> and was just a miserable trail everyday <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Allison suggests that life as a handicapped is full of worth and quality <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> but to Chris life in a wheelchair is the Bain of his existence <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> With no hope of what he describes as a “normal” life Chris decided to take his own life on February 10 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 1993 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Death for Chris was a way for him to alleviate all his pain and suffering allowing him to finally have a peace of mind <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. =<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Following the same pattern <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Ramón Sampedro was a man who suffered a terrible diving accident at the age of 25 which also left him paralyzed <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> leaving him to do nothing but lay in a bed for 29 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> After the tragedy <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Ramón was sent into a terrible depression spiral which him left with nothing; he could not bring him self to face the world again <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Due to this he stayed in bed for the remainder of his life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> During which he decided life was not worth the daily troubles his accident left him with <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> so he decided on ending his life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> but due to Spanish Law <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> he was prohibited from receiving assistance or committing suicide <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> For the rest of his years on this earth <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Ramón dedicated his life to fight for assisted suicide under Spanish law <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> He worked day and night <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> ultimately getting him no where <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> So after 29 long and hard years of fighting Ramón broke law and committed suicide <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Most people say after a life alerting accident time is needed to cope with the changes <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> but in Ramón’s case time did nothing for him <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> All he wanted was a way out <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> a way to end his suffering <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> a way to end his pain <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> a way to embrace death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> but due to the law he was prohibited from doing so <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. = =<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Under American law euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide is illegal <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> and is strictly frowned upon <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> One man decided that the law created an inhumane death for all suffering patients <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> and one man decided to do something about it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> This controversial figure is known as the “Angle of Death”; Jack Kevorkian preformed hundreds of illegal euthanisations of suffering terminally ill patients <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Dr <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Kevorkian felt that the doctors of modern society were cowards for turning away patients who needed help ending the suffering <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> He claims that ending the suffering is a kind and humane thing to do for a patient <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Another big complaint of physician assisted suicide <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> much like the ones preformed my Dr <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> is that when a doctor helps end a life they are overstepping their place as a human and acting more like god <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> but according to Jack Kevorkian <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> any doctor that interrupts the natural flow of life “plays” God <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> When a doctor takes someone’s leg off to prevent widespread infection they are playing god <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> any medical procedure prolongs life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> therefore interrupting the natural flow of life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> He also stated <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> "My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> to end their suffering <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Unfortunately <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> that entailed <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> in their cases <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> ending of the life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">" To some Kevorkian was the destructor of life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> the destroyer of all things good <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> but to most he was a pioneer for the medical world and one of the few human doctors <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Similar to Dr <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Kevorkian’s work <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> but a little more legal <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> a Dutch physician named Peter Admiraal describes his work of ending patients suffering through assisted suicide <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> which is permitted under Dutch law <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Admiraal regards euthanasia as the “last dignified act of terminal care <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">” To him <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> euthanasia is just a way to further care for the patient allowing for an “easier” death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> He claims that “opponents of active voluntary euthanasia will regard this development as yet another step on the so-called slippery slop…I do not accept that there is a slippery slope <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> A clear moral and legal boundary can be drawn around the notion of consent <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> This notion of consent <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> based on respect for the patient’s autonomy <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">” And when it comes down to it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> he is right; the point of medicine is to help a patient and respects his/her’s autonomy <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> If a patient requests it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> I feel eutinasia should be allowed <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. = =<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Euthanasia is a hugely controversial topic <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> and after supplying much evidence <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> I here state that euthanasia is wrong <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> I feel it is one of our best ways to care for sick and suffering patients who want a way out <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> With it a patient can experience a painless and comfortable death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The system now a day forces patients to suffer till the end of their life <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> rather than allowing a way to opt out for a more comfortable death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In the American culture <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> when a dog gets terminally sick it is more humane to euthanize the dog <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> or put it out of its misery <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In the contrary <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> for a human it is known to be more “humane” to allow them to suffer <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> We give animals the basic freedom to not suffer till death <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> but we will not even to the same for a fellow human being <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Following my logic <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Peter Smith stated that <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> "The truth is that we all have a right to die with dignity <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> which means being given good palliative care and pain relief <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">” We should all be spared suffering and be given the opportunity to “opt” out if so needed <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> It is our body/life why can we not choose how to end it? = = = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Thank you again for all of your input <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> and I hope you enjoyed mine <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">. = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sincerely <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">, = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Scott Hannah =