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根据下面资料，回答题 Laws on Euthanasia
It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing andfinal 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of 31 ill patients who wish to die. Themeasure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost 32 word flashed on the Internet andwas picked up,half a world away,by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society ofCanada. He sent it on 33 the group' s on-line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess : "We postedbulletins all day long, because of course this isn't just something 34 happened in Australia. It'sworld history.
The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has leftphysicians and citizens alike trying to 35 with its moral and practical implications. Some havebreathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian medicalAssociation, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is 36 to turn
back. In Australia--where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing communityattitudes have all played their part--other states are going to consider making a 37 law to dealwith euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where he right-to-die movement is. gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.
Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death--probably by a 38 injection or pill--to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally illby two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can 39 a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering:a terrifying death from his breathing condition. "I' mnot 40 of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I' d go, becauseI've watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks," he says.
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