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Euthanasia: When Life Is To Be Feared More Than Death
…the elderly patients…are comatose. They weigh practically nothing. Their skin hangs in heavy folds on their skeletons. ‘These patients must be fed through gastric tubes pushed down their throats,’ Dr. Peter Haemmerli explains, and that can make even comatose patients retch and vomit.’
Thus, according to Barbara J. Culliton, many severely ill patie ....
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.... than the pain of death. In these cases death is not the nightmare experienced in war, but rather an alternative to endless pain. “At times we must look at death as a welcome release from an untenable life. Death need not be a source of horror. It can be freedom, a release from agony”.
This observation by Dr. Milton D. Heifetz encompasses the purpose of euthanasia: to provide “a welcome release from an untenable life”. There are two main types within euthanasia. The ....
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