at determines the quality of life, and the individual dies when his brain dies" (7). He also states that, "We are, in fact, all dying. Some rapidly, some more slowly-nonetheless, we are headed for death" (15).In the many cases in which euthanasia is argued, the patient would have died long before without medical treatment in the first place. Because of the doctors' intervention, there is only a person in pain being kept alive by machines. In all of our great medical advances, we have forgotten that people still have to die. It was in our good intentions to postpone their deaths to the last, but we have only put them and their families in pain. We must draw the line and decide that when a patient will not recover, he is in great pain, and he or his families wish it, then the patient must be set free. Euthanasia may seem like a terrible thing, but it goes along with the advances that man has achieved and it must be accepted....
