At any one time, over 10,000 patients in Canada are in a permanently vegetative
             State (Bender, 34). In addition, thousands of profoundly handicapped infants are born each year. As life-
             sustaining medical technology continues to improve and lengthen the process of dying, those numbers will
             steadily increase. This, along with several other factors, is why euthanasia should be legalized throughout
             Allowing doctors to administer a lethal dose is much more merciful to dying patients than allowing them to
             die slowly and painfully from a terminal disease. Everyone must die. And almost everyone comes to a
             point where they, or a loved one, knows they are dying and must decide what to do. Euthanasia will mean
             the act of ending the life of a person, from compassionate motives, when he/she is already terminally ill or
             when his suffering has become unbearable.
             People who, perhaps because of a serious illness or perhaps for reasons unrelated to their illness, are
             extremely depressed and say they want to die. These people are not different than anyone else who thinks
             about suicide -- they just have medical problems in addition to their emotional or psychological problems.
             Some ill people become frustrated that they cannot lead the kind of active lives that they used to before
             their illness. Some feel guilty about being a burden on their family. Voluntary euthanasia is unnecessary
             because alternative treatments exist. It is widely believed that thre are only two options open to patients
             with terminal illness: either they die slowly in unrelieved suffering or they receive euthanasia (Barnard, 1).
             In fact, there is a middle way, that of creative and compassionate caring. Meticulous research in Palliative
             medicine has in recent years shown that virtually all unpleasant symptoms experienced in the process of
             terminal illness can be either relieved or substantially alleviated techniques already avail...