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Exercise 9 - Correcting bad concluding sentences in body paragraphs



Instructions: Read the paragraph and type an appropriate concluding sentence in the box.

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      Euthanasia must remain illegal because legalizing it could lead to its abuse. Let's not forget that terminally ill patients are very needy and very vulnerable and rely on doctors and family members for advice and care. This dependency puts them at the risk of being easily manipulated by family members and the medical community whose interests might be better served if the patient were to die. Family members might choose to free themselves from the burden of caring for a terminally ill patient by quickly agreeing to the patient's request to die. Family members are not the only ones who could abuse euthanasia. The medical community could also abuse it by using it to solve problems to which they see no other solution. This is what happened in England recently when hospital administrators were facing tight funding and increased demand for hospital beds. To solve these problems, they required doctors and nurses to limit the care they gave patients whose life they considered worthless or whose chances of recovery were doubtful. They were instructed to give fatal doses of pain killers, withhold food or treatment, and refuse to resuscitate these patients without their or their family's consent. For these reasons, the decision to end life should be made by the patient alone.

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Write your concluding sentence here
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