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Euthanasia should be legalised

Euthanasia should be legalised

Euthanasia should be legalised. As human beings we should all have the right to end our suffering and to choose a dignified, quiet death. Euthanasia is the hastening of death for a suffering, terminally ill person. It is a quiet and easy death. Indeed, the term euthanasia quite literally means in Greek a good death. Euthanasia should be made a legal procedure within Australia as any such legalisation would give people the legal right to choose a 'good death', a dignified death for themselves.

As human beings we have the right to vote, to take responsibility for our actions and to make our own choices. We are an autonomous people with a right to self-sufficiency, independence and to self-regulation, so why should we not have the right to choose whether or not our lives should end if there is little or no hope of recovery?

We all should have the right to choose to die if our circumstances are completely intolerable. We grant animals these rights y...

Posted by: Joel Chibota

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