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Euthanasia - Murder in the First Degree?

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"Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: It's Murder in the First Degree," an essay written by Autumn Buzzell, discusses about the meaning, value, truth, and development of Euthanasia in all around the world. Euthanasia means ending one's life if one has a terminal disease is an incurable condition, and is done by lethal injection. She states that euthanasia is some kind of very bad act that happen in her country, maybe in another country too, for many years. There are many pro and contra about this topic. Some people who pro said that euthanasia is an act to die with dignity. But now come this problem, actually, what are those that are pro arguing or fighting for? For their future or for someone's death who no longer live with them? So about this topic, Buzzell said that euthanasia is against all the law in the world because it is same with someone who murder or get rid of someone who cannot help or serve them in community. For this, I agree with Buzzell's idea which states that Euthanasia is a murder in the first degree, even for the people who actually really want it. Buzzell thinks that euthanasia is same with killing people but on the name of "medical treatment." In the article, there is a doctor and some patient who really desperate with her life because they was not able to serve herself depend of their type of sickness. In order to relieve and release the pain from that, they chose to take this euthanasia action. Actually, there are so many choices to relieve their mind and body than just take euthanasia and poisoning herself to forcefully walk to death world and meet the death angel. In this era, medical world has improved a lot and that is possible for all people who suffer from their illness to get some treatment which can reduce their pain, even can remove their pain. So it really useless to die by euthanasia when we can get thet kind of medical treatment. Euthanasia seems that it against law of nature and law of heart. Thi

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