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euthanasia as “the “the act or practice pracctice of killing or p ermitting the death of ho opelessly sick or permitting hopelessly iinjured njured iindividuals ndividuals ((as as p persons ersons o orr d domestic omestic painless way animals) in a rrelatively elatively painle ess w ay ffor or o rreasons easons o off m mercy. ercy.� W Where here iiss tthere here m mercy ercy iin n aan n become act to which one has b ecome desensitized? Itt iiss aabsurd people bsurd tto o ssuppose uppose tthat hat p eople animalss ccare desensitized to killing animal are whether kill die painless tthe he aanimals nimals tthey hey k ill d ie rrelatively elatively p ainless deaths.. A p person bee mer merciful deaths erson ccannot annot b m ciful and nonmerciful, nonmer ciful, sensitized and desensitized, d in tthe he sselfsame elfsame aact. ct. W hen I h ear M r. C ollins When hear Mr. Collins d escribe a rroutine outine dump-truck dump-truck lload oad o is describe off h his so -called un nviable v chicks as “euthanized “eeuthanized so-called unviable pr operlyy,� I don ’t hear euthan nasia. I hear properly, don’t euthanasia. euphemism. David N N.. Ev Evans, anss, SSanta Sant ta Cruz C

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