... their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies. The ... ". How long after acceptance of voluntary euthanasia will we hear the calls for non-voluntary euthanasia? There are thousands of comatose or demented patients sustained by little more than good nursing care. They are an enormous financial...

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... withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments is generally accepted. Some critic's fear that based on this, euthanasia is simply a step away."(Fiesta, J., "Legal aspects of Physician-assisted suicide". Nursing Management, p.28, 1997.) Legalization would require governments to regulate the process. Some critics suggest that the legal system would have a hard time controlling euthanasia because physicians and patients act privately ... oppose euthanasia think physicians can be wrong in estimating how much time a patient has left, causing unnecessary deaths. They believe that the pub...

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