1. Euthanasia
The Right to Die: The Legalization of Euthanasia Christiaan Barnard, a South African cardiac surgeon, once said, "I have never seen any nobility in a patient's thrashing around all night in a sweat-soaked bed, trying to escape from the pain that torments him day and night" (Walker 18). Should a...
He had compassion and humanity for others including his wife of 22 years. ... This movement led Derek to found the Hemlock Society five years later and today the organization is well known as the "Compassion in Dying and End-of-Life Choices organization.... He truly believed that ethics and death comes hand-in-hand in relieving the suffering of those who need compassion the most. ... The right to die is defined as the putative right for a person to decide not to be kept alive by heroic means and die with dignity [Def14]. ...