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6a. Complete the text with the following words and word
combinations:
hospices, incurable, struck off, assisted dying, terminally ill, persistent
vegetative state, palliative care, euthanasia.
A 53-year old woman with ......... muscular dystrophy flew to
Switzerland to end her life. ......... is legal in Switzerland but illegal in
the UK. Opponents of ......... , or ‘mercy killing’, argue that legaliza-
tion would lead to abuse and call for doctors who participate to be
.......... What Britain needs, they claim, is better ......... and more
........... for the ......... to allow such patients to die with dignity.
This follows a recent US case where the husband of a woman
who had been in a ......... for 16 years was successful in having artifi-
cial feeding withdrawn in spite of opposition from his wife’s parents.
6b. What are your views on assisted dying?
7. Match each headline (1 – 8) to an opening line from a
newspaper report (a – h). Look at Tasks 5, 6 to help you.
1. 66-year-old becomes oldest mother
2. Frozen embryo case to go to Europe
3. Surrogate mother sued by couple
4. Embryo cloning – where will it take us?
5. Using body parts without consent
6. UK full face transplant search on
7. ‘Designer baby’ rules are relaxed
8. Doctors back infant mercy killing
a.
A woman of 30 who agreed to bear a child for a childless couple
then refused to part with the child has been...
b.
A surgeon has been accused of removing organs from patients
without their knowledge...
c.
Three-quarters of Belgian doctors are willing to assist in the death
of critically ill babies to end their suffering.
d.
A woman hoping to stop the destruction of six embryos created
with her eggs and her ex-partner’s sperm launched a case at the
European Court of Human Rights...
e.
A woman has given birth in Romania following IVF treatment.