Just as there can be culpable 1_______ so too can there be blameless arts. Suppose-to take an example from the moral philosophy books-that a man 2_______ to gain from the death of a certain child. The child strikes his head in the bath and falls 3_______. The man sits down and watches him drown. The fact that the man has performed no action does not 4_______ him. Similarly, suppose that a doctor does no wrong by 5_______ some treatment in order that death should come sooner rather than later. Is he then necessarily wrong if he 6_______ enough painkillers to kill? Does the fact that the doctor performed an action, rather than an omission, 7_______ him? Many doctors working on the battlefield of 8_______ suffering think that only 9_______ demands a firm difference between passive and active euthanasia 10 _______.Their argument for killing goes like this: one of a doctor's duties is to 11_______ suffering: sometimes that is all there is left for him to do and killing is the only way to do it. There is nothing new in this view. When Hippocrates 12_______ his oath for doctors, which explicitly 13_______ active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his 14_______.
Yet if a patient's philosophical views 15_______ euthanasia, it is not clear why the religious objections of others should 16_______ his death. Another worry is that a legal framework for euthanasia, permitting a doctor to 17_______ dying man's request in a 18_______ set of circumstances, might 19_______ dangers for society by setting a 20_______ for killing That depends on the society. Holland, 21_______, is ready for it. It is probably no 22_______ that it was Dutch doctors who most heroically resisted 23_______ to join in the Nazi medical atrocities that have given 24_______ its worst name.
A.withholding B.embrace C.complywith D.excuse
E.prescribed F.unconscious G.stands H.condemn
I.terminal J.rulesout K.intrudeon L.administers
M.prevent N.squeamishness O.onrequest P.formulated
Q.precedent R.coincidence S.ban T.pose
U.omissions V.arguably W.pressure X.euthanasia