The Controversy Of Mercy Killing Mentally Disabled

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in pain. However, today this would not be acceptable. This changed after the world discovered how Hitler was using “mercy killing”. He killed the physically and mentally disabled in order to form a master race, not to alleviate them from their suffering . Now people disagree with the idea of killing the disabled. The issue of mercy killing has shifted to whether people with terminal diseases or illnesses should be killed to end their pain (Smith). Mercy killing is not commonly practiced in modern society and should not be used in most situations. “... There is