1. The Right to Die
... arise from legalization would be insignificant compared with the anguish that now results from forcibly prolonging the life of patients who want to die" (Russell 226). Furthermore, a more specific fear of abuse, which is completely unfounded, would be the recreation of Nazi-like methods for the elimination ... "mercy killing," or anything resembling it, but rather merciless killing, done secretly and in complete violation of German law. Dr. Ruth Russell argues that the public should not allow an understandable revulsion toward the atrocities perpetuated by the Nazis supercede, empathy f...
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