Euthanasia is a commonly debated issue that raises question as to medical ethics. If euthanasia is deemed ethnical due to the moral principal, it allows a patient mercy, than it is the practice of euthanasia that is unethical. Hemlock society members world wide argue it is our duty to rid suffering and cause no further pain to terminally ill patients but using plastic bags and helium to end a persons life are no more respectable …showed first 75 words of 709 total…

…showed last 75 words of 709 total…Societies personal website flaunt the hypocrisy this organization was developed on. This society claims to believe in a gentle death but plastic bags and deadly pills are not gentle and neither are oxygen sucking machines. These are perfect examples of humiliating, undignified methods of death. I believe The Hemlock Society should be disassembled due to the fact they appear as mass suicide cult rather than a society aimed at helping those that are terminally ill.