euthanasia

Euthanasia is the act or practice of painlessly putting to death, persons suffering from painful and incurable diseases or incapacitating physical disorders. Because there is no specific provision for euthanasia in most legal systems, it is accounted as either suicide (if performed by the patient himself) or murder (if performed by another). There has always been a heated debate that surrounds euthanasia, yet it has become much more controversial within recent years. This conflict-ridden issue …showed first 75 words of 1954 total…

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