'Doctor-Assisted Suicide Should be Legalized for the Terminally Ill.'
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support 0% · economic burdenmoderated to 50%; argued down by 50%
by metric on 2006-02-19 14:28:55Medical technology has advanced to the point where the terminally ill can be kept alive even though the mind has ceased to function. The high costs of sustaining patients who have no known method of improving is a serious economic burden on the family of the patient. For most, funeral costs alone are too much to handle. -
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by anonymous on 2007-04-04 17:16:01Millions of American young adult and middle-aged people have NO medical insurance and cannot afford any kind of medical care - physical or emotional! (I know many and it is a crime!) To spend millions of government dollars to keep a person alive who wishes not to live in their condition or who has irreversible brain damage is just another crime! Two wrongs do not make a right!
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text: 'Millions of American young adult and middle-aged people have NO medical insurance and cannot afford any kind of medical care - physical or emotional! (I know many and it is a crime!) To spend millions of government dollars to keep a person alive who wishes not to live in their condition or who has irreversible brain damage is just another crime! Two wrongs do not make a right!'
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