The present changes in death control, such as modern medicine, our enlarged powers of interference in the natural process of dying offer the possibility of new options such as Euthanasia. ... Individuals against euthanasia have a strong belief that nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether it is an old man, or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying. ... Once the respect for human life is so low that an innocent person may be killed directly even at his own request, compulsory euthanasia will necessarily be very near. ...

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