... practise of painlessly ending the life of a person who has an incurable disease or handicap. There are two main types of euthanasia active and passive. Although they are hard to define exactly, passive euthanasia is the withdrawal of life sustaining medical treatment. Active euthanasia is the administration of a lethal dose of drugs. The first point I would like to make is that ... it is a wide spread practice that animals in pain with no chance of recovery are put to death out compassion. It seems strange to me that some people feel that under very few circumstances people shouldn't be...

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