EuthanasiaPublic opinion for euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide hasalways been mixed. A poll that was taken by the Gallup Organizationin Canada during July 1995 proves that people are starting to see theadvantages of euthanasia. The first question that was asked was: When a person has an incurable disease that isimmediately life threatening and causes that personto experience great suffering, do you, or do you notthink that competent doctors should be allowed bylaw to end the patient s life through mercy killing, ifthe patient has made a formal request in writing? It is proven in this first question that the general public believesthat cases of great pain and suffering deserve the right to chooseeuthanasia as an option to stop the pain. Three quarters of the peoplesurveyed believed that the choice should be given to the patient. The second question was about non-immediate life threateningcases: When a person has an incurable disease that is notimmediately life-threatening but causes that personto experience great suffering, do you, or do you not

think that competent doctors should be allowed bylaw to end the patient s life through mercy killing, ifthe patient has made a formal request in writing? As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening,the general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no maybe thinking of treatment that has not been tried yet or treatment thatmay come in the future due to new technologies. Medical Advancements: During the last 20 years, technologicaladvancement has increased more than the advancement of the wholetime of man before that. People that have the no opinion on euthanasiamay be thinking that the person may be saved by a sudden medicaladvancement. It would be terrible for a member of your family to takea lethal dose of drugs, given to them by a doctor, to find the next daywhile reading a recent medical journal that a cure had been found a fewdays before. How would you feel?Short Essays For Euthanasia:Essay #1:

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