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2’45
It’s still illegal to assist someone to suiside. It can be harmful to the society if the law makes assisted suicide leagal. However, in the broken healthcare system in the US, many of the chronical disease patients do not receive help for treatment, instead, they receive fund for assisted suicide.
3’33
Although there are reasonable arguments for assisted suicide, it’s not worth the risk to make it legal, because there’s high chance the practice will be abused and also there can’t be enough safeguard in this practice.
3’56
It may be a taboo to debate assisted suicide open in the states, there was a heated debate in Britain’s House of Lords, proponents of assisted dying including family members of patients and even an archbishop joined the argument, supporting legalization.
2’33
The assisted dying not only won support from people like the archbishop, but also from a person who’s known for his high moral, and even from scientists like Stephen Howkin.
3’28
The debate has reached a fruitful stage: the draft of the billing has passed the second reading and in the process to be amended. No matter what result the billing ends with, it has raised large influences in the society and evoke thinking and education in countries like UK and US.
8’23
BM, an icon in recent die-with-dignity campaign, her story has raised debates among people who support and who object the assisted dying. The whole story even the environment in which BM died is described and romanticized by the author, who is apparently for the die-with-dignity campaign.
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