Part one of term paper
literally means an “ easy or painless death”. It can also mean mercy killing , the deliberate ending of the life of someone suffering from an incurable disease or the effects of terrible injury. Such a decision could be taken by a doctor or relative whose motive is to relieve intolerable misery and pain or not to prolong the life of a bo ...

Part two of term paper
... the capacity to sustain life : patients who would in the past have died from natural causes can now be sustained almost indefinitely as a result of the intervention of artificial life support equipment or other medical or surgical procedures. While this has generally been a desirable development , it has also had some negative consequences in that, in some instances, the dying process is unnecessarily prolonged. There are two main arguments against that severe pain can and that if some for ...