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PROS: * It provides a way to relieve extreme pain * It provides a way of relief when a person's quality of life is low * Frees up medical funds to help other people * It is another case of freedom of choice CONS: * Euthanasia devalues human life * Euthanasia can become a means of health care cost containment * Physicians and other medical care people should not be involved in directly causing death * There is a "slippery slope" effect that has occurred where euthanasia has been first been legalized for only

the terminally ill and later laws are changed to allow it for other people or to be done non-voluntarily.

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