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I stumbled upon this article by chance while surfing Yahoo! and it is definitely thought worthy. it is about this lady who was found dead in her home 3 days after the french courts refused her plea for euthansia. A mother of 3, who lost her sense of sight, smell and taste due to a rare form of disease, which causes the abnormal growth of malignant tumour in her nasal cavity (aka face area)and left her severely deformed. now, her children run away at the sight of her. she sees her life as a living hell which no animal should ever go through.

to read more:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080320/tts-france-court-health-euthanasia-509a08e.html

euthanasia. mercy killing. who is to draw the line? who can say that you are not allowed to choose to end your life? yet, who should have the responsibility of making that fatal injection?

everyone's life belongs to himself/herself, and they should be given the right to their own life, to do what they want. the legislation allows family members of a terminally-ill person on a life support machine to turn off the machine, yet it does not allow one to ask another to end his/her life mercifully. do we really hold our lives in our hands? or is it simply in the hands of others and totally out of out control?

i feel that euthanasia should be legalised. we should be able to choose to end our lives on our own terms, as it is ours, to begin with. others might argue that life is given by our parents, but our life, is ours, because of how we live it- the choices and decisions which we made, which leads us to where we are, to be who we are.

Sebire, the brave lady in the picture said, "I now know how to get my hands on what I need and if I don't get it in France, I will get it elsewhere." why is it that she should be forced to resort to illegal means to get what she wants? her case is presented before the court in france, yet the judicial system refuses to grant her the rights on the account that "doctors were not there to prescribe lethal drugs."

yet, is it not the doctor's job to heal the patient, to make them feel better? so, if they cannot heal the patient and the only way to relieve her of her pain is death, then, theoretically, it is the doctor's job to administer euthanasia. yet, this is where the conflict arises- is mercy killing acceptable?

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the money he stole to feed his starving infant, the rapist who was sexually abused as a child, the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life.

The law chooses its words carefully.