Essay on Euthanasia
.... American Psychological Association. 2004 Internet Source: The Ethics Site: Decisions at the End of Life http://ethics.acusd.edu/presentations/AppliedEthics/Euthanasia/index_files/frame.htm Euthanasia is: peaceful, painless, lucid and thought out, with loved ones gathered around. At the center of this moral hurricane is Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a Michigan pathologist (whose business card reads "Jack Kevorkian, M.D. Bioethics and Obitiatry. Special Death Counseling") who created suicide machines to allow terminally ill patients to kill themselves in supposedly humane and painless ways. In his 1991 book Prescription: Medicine--The Goodness of Planned Death, he speaks of the "Stone-Age ethics of space-age medicine" and of his personal crusade for physician- assisted suicide. His highly publicized activities have been viewed by others in a multitude of ways, from his being a godsend to a serial killer In her 1994 ruling striking down a 140-year-old Washington State ban on assisted suicide, Judge...