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Great Britain & U.S. legislation pursued to change the law forbidding Euthanasia & P.A.S. but nothing much happened. The laws remained unchanged & medical profession continued to condemn such practices.
Halland has already made Euthanasia legally acceptable.
State of Oregon has now legalized physician assisted suicide. But not Euthanasia.
A voluntary Euthanasia Bill was recently passed in northern territory of Australia. In Euthanasia people die of growing fear of long lingering death or more chronic illness & old age. The AIDS epidemic cases of young people dying miserable deaths as it is noxious & degrading disease turning to suicide to relieve that misery. Those who are not willing to suffer accepts Euthanasia, is cowardness, intolerance, incapability to suffer, lack of courage, which leads person to end his life i.e. suicide, Santhara, Euthanasia etc. It is always wrong for a doctor to kill intentionally even if the patient is suffering & ask for death. There is moral difference between intending to hasten death & forseeing that life will be shortened or between killing & letting die or euthanasia and assisted suicide. Voluntary & involuntary Euthanasia without request.
Is life benefit for those in a persistent vegetative state or should their treatment & feeding be stopped? Euthanasia is connected with the way we understand is morally & should legally be permissible. But if voluntary Euthanasia were to be legalized would inevilably lead to involuntary eụthanasia & legal possibility of euthanasia will put pressure on those who are old or terminally ill to opt for euthanasia the knowledge that doctor will perform euthanasia will undermine confidence in the medical proession. Euthanasia is implementation of decision that particular individual's life will come to end before it need to do so-a decision that life will end when it could be prolonged. Decision involves in active Euthanasia direct interventions or passive euthanasia withholding of life prolonging measures.If decision coincides with individuals, own wishes and he has consciously & expressively approved the decision of is voluntary Euthanasia. When individual concerned does not know about the decision & has not consciously & expressly approved it in advance is non voluntary euthanasia.
Tony Bland's (foot ball team of Liverpool) brain was damaged & he became permanently & irrevocably unconscious resulting condition was persistent vegetative state. A state in which he was doomed to remain indefinitely without hope of recovery which is not fatal so long as feeding is maintained & can remain alive for 30+ years. They asked English court to declare that it should be lawful for medical staff to
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