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Essay / My View on Compassionate Crime - 557
“What gives you the right to play God?” » (Huntman). This is the question that haunts caregivers in the medical field. Nurses are healers, doctors are resurrectionists; repair what would have been our loss and prolong the life we thought was lost. They are our saviors. Doctors are so concerned with saving money and doing good that they are sometimes too good at treating patients. Where it is so obvious to let the soul go and no longer attach it to the decaying body in front of them. But the doctors, so focused on salvation, turn their heads and convince themselves that, even though the patient, plunged in agony and slowly and painfully withering away, they are doing the right thing by prolonging the process. have the choice to die if we slowly waste away? You are no longer capable of fulfilling the duties of life and must be constantly monitored and cared for, do you have the choice to end our sad life? Because a life like that is not a life; you don't live, you die. In the article “A Crime of Compassion,” Hunttman did just that. She ended a life with...