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"At the Hemlock Society we get calls daily from desperate people who are looking for someone like Jack Kevorkian to end their lives which have lost all quality… Americans should enjoy a right guaranteed in the European Declaration of Human Rights — the right not to be forced to suffer. It should be considered as much of a crime to make someone live who with justification does not wish to continue as it is to take life without consent." - Faye Girsh

This relates to the last post. I agree with Faye Girsh, as I said on the last post, we should not decide for others the value of their lives. I think he makes an important point when he talks about the Declaration of Human Rights, because, after all, it is true and it is an important argument.

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Death with dignity

I took this excerpt out of a website, and it tells about a case which includes euthanasia. “When her case came to trial, Claire Conroy was unable to move from a semi-fetal position. She was severely demented, had heart disease, hypertension and diabetes and her left leg was gangrenous to the knee; she had sores, couldn’t speak, had only a limited ability to swallow, and had eye problems; she had a urinary catheter in place and was unable to control her bowels. She was able to moan and scratch, and occasionally smile when someone combed her hair. Claire Conroy eventually died before the courts were able to decide what to do. She was not a candidate for voluntary euthanasia. She had not made a living will. But her case posed very worrying dilemmas about end of life decisions. Pushing difficult deaths to one side will not make them go away or make them any easier. Exit encourages open discussion of the problems increasingly facing us in society. We care, and we listen with an open mind. We ask you to work with us so that every person can die with dignity in the way that he or she would choose.”

For me, this is one of the main reasons why Euthanasia should be legal. Life obviously has a value, religion says that but everyone also knows it, it is not like life can be wasted, it must be lived. But the next question is, how do we judge if life is being lived or not? When did we get the permission to force someone to live their lives? That's right, never. Life should not be wasted if is being lived, but it's not up to us to decide for others wheter it is or not.

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Legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide leads to suicide contagion.

When the media portrays assisted suicide as a means of “taking control” or claims that someone helping another person kill themselves is “death with dignity,” then society (including teenagers) is receiving the dangerous message that suicide is a legitimate answer to life's problems. I really disagree with what the person above wrote. For me, there is no sense in saying that legalizing Euthanasia would make everyone kill themselves. It would only provide more information and control about the issue, because people would do it legally instead of ilegally or instead of travelling to other countries to do it.

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By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. - Ezekiel Emanuel

http://mobile.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/ezekielema538071.html

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Today, I am posting the results of a survey I found online, made with 350 people, aged 18 to 65. These results show many aspects of this debate, like the fact that most people have never even thought about the legalization of euthanasia. It also shows that the people who agree with the legalization, are for it only in exceptional cases, which for me is another point on why should euthanasia be legalized. We can also see that people would not euthanize their babies, even if they were to live with a problem for their whole lives. All of these aspects, for me, show why it should be legalized, because people would only use it in exceptional cases, because after all, these are their own lives.

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I am posting this link today, because I loved the way this article was written. I partly agree with it, because maybe we do need the presence of our loved ones, but want to keep our and their well being anyway. I know that it is really difficult to sum up such a controversial topic in four paragraphs, but this writer managed it to do it.

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Tumblr in the classroom

For me, using Tumblr in the classroom brings a really positive outcome. I like it, because Tumblr is so simple and instant, but at the same time, everyone's blog is unique. I prefer Tumblr over many other academical tools, such as tests, papers or presentations. I think this way, we can do things much more easily, as well as check our classmates' work, and I feel like this is the purpose of a journalism class, to share what you've written rather than just handing it in to the teacher. I think Tumblr was the best choice of a tool to use in this class, and we can profit a lot from it.

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Today, I decided to post this video, because it's the best video I found on the subject yet. It talks about every aspect I find important and exemplifies everything in a simple and understandable way. I think this video does the best job in informing people about everything basic about Euthanasia, making they think about it later. I also agree with the final opinion on the video.