1. The Morality Of Euthanasia
... during a check-up. Patients being told they have cancer or AIDS, by their doctors' mistake, have killed themselves to avoid the pain. Gay-Williams, The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia, stated: "Contemporary medicine has high standards of excellence and a proven record of accomplishment, but it does not possess perfect and complete knowledge. A mistaken diagnosis is possible. We may believe that we are dying ... of a disease when, as a matter of fact, we may not be. . . ." (454) Williams explains that patients who have been told by their doctors they ... decide whether she or he wants to live...
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