Euthanasia Should a patient who has lost all powers of reasoning and who lives like a vegetable, totally hopeless and helpless, a terminal case who only wants to die, be forced to live? The number of people who are asking this question increases each day. Although the official position of the medical profession is to maintain life indefinitetely, regardless of the condition of the patient, but with certain cases, euthanasia should be administered. We are living in an age of medical miracles. Medicine, has made so much dramatic progress, that lifesaving techniques were thought to be impossible, a generation age. Ill patients throughtout the world are kept alive by the use of defribbrilators, respirators, pacemakers and other similar equipment. A study was done by the American Encephalograhic Soceity has concluded that when an EEG reading is what is known as "flat line" the person,....

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