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Argument: Euthanasia is better than non-treatment ways to shorten lives and end suffering
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Taken from Palliative Care in Canada The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Of Life and Death - Final Report. June 1995. Appendix M - "We had one category for research purposes which was phrased in the following manner: "the explicit intent to shorten the patient's life", not "to kill". As a matter of fact, most doctors who answered that they had performed an NTD [non-treatment decision] with the explicit purpose to hasten the end of the patient's life, meant that they did not want to prolong suffering..."[1]