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The Meaning of Death In 2002 on January first, the government of Netherlands legalized mercy killing. This astounding news quickly spread around the world. This brought the ethical argument of euthanasia to the public spotlight again. People are separated by roughly two different positional stances; one is a pro-euthanasia position and the other is an anti-euthanasia position. The pro-euthanasia defenders argued that the deed respected patientsf right of free choice to their own death. The pro-euthanasia defenders also declared that euthanasia was the only way to release the horrible chronic pain complicated by some incurable diseases. If there were only a painful death in their future, they would rather choose to let these patients die peacefully by medical technique. However, I am taking the stance of anti-euthanasia, because even though euthanasia may sound merciful, but emotionally unstable and tend to be temporary and hasty. For instance, most of the cases, which patients who have been plagued by chronic medical disorders plead to doctors to die, are so unstable, and their plea is emotional. When the dreadful pains were gone, they would never ask doctors a peaceful death. They are usually asking the doctors to be released from the never-ending pain, or their disappointment which they felt no positive vision in their future.
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