Dying Patient's Bill of Rights

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross said, "Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life," and "Dying is nothing to fear." It can be the most wonderful experience of your life" (On). Kubler-Ross brought death out of the closet and into the open, showing people that it was not something to fear. Euthanasia for many brings them a death with dignity, not one wracked with pain and anguish, causing grief and sorrow to those le

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