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Death With Dignity As our medical technological capabilities grow in great leaps and bounds, so does our life expectancy. Our doctors are able to deal with pretty much any injury or disease that comes through the door. It is almost hard to die in the current state of our medical technology. Many would question whether or not this is a positive occurrence. As our life expectancy grows, our quality of life decreases. A few centuries ago people were considered old if they reached the age of 40. Today, thanks to modern advances in technology, people are living to be 100 years old. At least the people in the old days died with dignity and died a natural death. Nowadays people are relying on machines to do their breathing, and other people to bathe and feed them. There is no dignity in this; these people may be better off not living at all. Their quality of life is despicable they have lost everything enjoyable in life. One of life’s greatest gifts is your freedom and individuality. Without these freedoms that make life enjoyable life is not worth living. These terminally ill people have nothing to live for. They can look forward to pain and suffering for the rest of their lives. Requiring a machine to live is not