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             EUTHANASIA An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS,.
             and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is.
             it really O.K.? Euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a.
             fifteen story building or taking a gun to oneown head. Certainly society frowns upon suicide, but yet.
             putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is being accepted every day. Society knows that suicide.
             is bad, but euthanasia is even worse. The guilt and blame of a lost life is falling on the hands of.
             doctorthat we are supposed to trust, and even worse, the family members themselves. A doctor is to be.
             known as a healer, not an agent of death. A family is supposed to love and support, not kill and.
             inherit. Every person makes the light of the world brighter. The world needs everyonepower and.
             contribution. Itthe power and energy of the elderly, and the s!.
             trength and will of the ill, that give the world life. The light has become very dim with the crime and.
             corruption in todayworld, we canafford to throw lives away because some think they are meaningless.
             If we continue to accept the merciless killings and suicides of the helpless but powerful, the light will.
             soon burn out. There will be no energy in the world. Euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide should not.
             be accepted or allowed by the government and people of the United States. Statistics show that.
             seventy-three percent of the U.S. population approved of some form of euthanasia. This is used.
             constantly in debates to pass laws for making euthanasia legal. But the people are deceived by this.
             number. When the poll was taken, the people were asked if they approved of some form of euthanasia.
             There are two forms of euthanasia, active and passive. It is the passive euthanasia that many people are.
             accepting, the less harsh of the two. Thatwhy people generally!.