Today there are five to ten thousand comatose patients in long term care facilities (Wheeler A1). There are countless elderly people in care facilities that have repeatedly expressed a desire to die. There are countless terminally ill patients that have also begged for death. Should these people be allowed to die, or should they be forced to keep on living? This question has plagued ethicists and physicians throughout the years. In the Netherlands, courts have …showed first 75 words of 609 total…

…showed last 75 words of 609 total…no reason to deny the same suffering and dying people the comfort of death. WORKS CITED * Derr, Patrick. "Euthanasia and the Future of Medicine." Hastings Center Report December 1988: 2-3 * Jacoby, Tamar. "'I Helped Her on Her Way'" Newsweek November 7, 1988: 101 * Moody, Harry R. "Legal and Ethical Issues in Elder Care: The Right to Die" Gerontologist October 1988: 711-712 * Wheeler, David L. "Euthanasia: an Increasingly Pressing Issue for Ethicists and Physicians" Chronicle of Higher Education November 9, 1988: A1, A6