thanasia for the terminally ill through assisted suicide". It has 47,000 members, which include several hundred doctors. Because of Humphry's book, Final Exit, which became a #1 best seller on The New York Times list, the society has grown by approximately twenty percent. The book gives suggestions on how to end one's life. This shows that many people are taking this issue seriously enough to join an organization and to research information that they may use in the future.People are questioning whether or not doctors will continue to act for the well being of the patient. If doctors are allowed to assist euthanasia, who is to say when they go too far? The Hippocratic Oath, which doctors’ take saying that they promise to preserve life, was originally for the protection of patients. Doctors though have the power to kill as well as heal. People who are against euthanasia might also say that the complete confidence that once formed the basis of doctor-patient relationship will be severed and no one will be safe if euthanasia goes too far. If physicians are allowed to kill their patients, where will it end? I think that when euthanasia is decided upon, the doctors are only concerned with the patient’s wishes. It is sometimes forgotten that another part of the “Hippocratic Oath” deals with relieving the patient’s pain.People might say that euthanasia is wrong because it gives people the authority to say when someone should die.We have forgotten how Nazi Germany began itsReign of Terror. It began not with Hitler, but withA group of German doctors who begun practicingEuthanasia on the mentally ill and the handicapped.Hitler approved of their euthanasia program, exploitingAnd extending it to rid the state of other “useless eaters.”Today America is rushing blindly to embrace thePhilosophy that some lives are not worth living – theCorner store of Nazi belief (McCuen 158).Although this very well mi...
