writer. But after reading some other articles and looking around the website www.euthanasia.com I found some weak arguments in Nowell-Smiths article and arguments against them. Also some of the issues like physicians role in assisting suicide and social impact of euthanasia he didnt analyze even though these are very important issues. Nowell-Smith is writing about older people who join voluntary euthanasia societies in order to when the time comes and they feel useless, helpless and probably in pain they know that they have an opportunity to end their lives without pain. But could it happen that when the time will come they will not want to end their lives? They look at other older people who die in institutions and the fact of having the same death scares them. But they dont know that may be a lot of people who die in the institutions enjoyed every day before they died. According to Nowell-Smith these people enjoy lives right now and are not in pain. They might need a lot of care and help when the years past but probably a lot of them will not want to end their lives because human body will struggle till the end to live even if it takes medical assistance, they might want to live to see the daylight of the next day. Concerning the argument regarding Dutch legalizing euthanasia in hospitals and everything is being in controlled, CMDS Executive Director Dr. David Stevens on the www.euthanasia.com have an argument against: "Physicians know it is dangerous for them to have the power to kill patients. Assisted suicide cannot be regulated or controlled, no matter how many safeguards are built in to protect patients from involuntary euthanasia. The data speaks for itself: one in five cases of assisted suicide occurred in Holland without the patient's consent, and in 17 percent of the cases, other treatment options were available. The survey also revealed that almost two-thirds of the euthanasia cases in 1995 were not reported. With...
