Pull the Plug
Just for a minute, imagine yourself no longer in control of your body. Your mind is not really very useful anymore either. You can’t recognize anyone, you don’t know who you are, and you will only get worse. You are in pain and the medicine is not doing the trick, but you can no longer communicate that fact. The world slowly slips away with whispers of confusion and shouts of pain. Nobody but you can hear them and nobody can hear you. Would you want to go on? Perhaps you would want to be left to go in peace? I know its almost impossible for most people to imagine themselves in a condition like the one just suggested. There are of course different cases with varying conditions, but for the record, would you want to live through great suffering at the end of your life? If the unnatural machines that kept you alive were just taken away, would you really want them back, or would you be grateful. My point, is that we as humans try to bring other humans through every disease that afflicts and effects them, and even defy death with our magnificent machines without thinking about just how far to go. We have t
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Approximate Word count = 751
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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