Can We Return Death to Disease?

The renewed interest in active euthanasia and assisted suicide has in response to the power of medicine to extend life under poor and to impose aggressive, often unremitting treatment that unstoppable. A dampening of the push for medical progress and a to accept death as part of the human condition will be necessary order to oppose the growing impulse to legalize euthanasia. Two arguments support of active euthanasia are analyzed and refuted: the claim that and patient rights extend as far as the right to be killed on, and the assertion that the traditional distinction between killing allowing to die is no longer valid. (KIE abstract)