备战考研：2015年考研英语作文预测 mercy killing

【河南教育在线-2015年考研英语作文预测:mercy killing】：

Writing (图画提纲式议论文)

Directions: Study the following picture carefully and write an essay of 160 – 200 words in which you should

1) describe the picture.

2) state different views on mercy killing, and

3) give your opinion on it.

晚期癌症病人请求安乐死。我们怎么办?

范文

Mercy killing is one of the most controversial issues in the world of medicine. As the picture given above depicts, a late-stage cancer patient is terminally-ill, asking the doctors for mercy killing. But the doctors look deeply embarrassed, feeling helpless because they are at a loss what to do about it.

The picture really sets me thinking. It implies that people differ in their attitudes towards the mercy killing. Some people think that physician-assisted suicide can relieve dying patients of unbearable pain and suffering. They maintain that as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, he has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. Others are strongly opposed to physician-assisted suicide. They contend that a doctor has no right to give a patient sufficient medication to control his pain if that may hasten death. They conclude that it is illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives.

As far as I’m concerned, doctors have a duty to help dying patients to alleviate their pain and suffering. I also agree that doctors deserve to be punished if they prolong the needless suffering of their terminally-ill patients. In short, I am in favor of mercy killing. (207 words)

                          （河南教育在线 小编）

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