... freedom that every person should be granted, and that there exists substantial averment to back up this statement. For example, according to James Rachels, the most common argument in support of euthanasia is one that we may call "the argument from mercy". It is an exceptionally simple argument, at least in its main idea, which makes one uncomplicated point. Terminally ill patients ... decision in perhaps the most controversial realm of the rights explosion: the right to die. In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court granted a request by the parents of the unconscious Karen Ann Quinlan to r...

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