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It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary
It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary
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2015-01-15
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It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group’s online service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: "We posted bulletins all day long, because this isn’t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history. "
The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally I11 law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right to life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia—where an aging population, life extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part—other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the U. S. and Canada, where the right to die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.
Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death—probably by a deadly injection or pill—to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nick-son, a 54 year old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally 111 law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. "I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, because I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks," he says.
Reasons for why euthanasia was passed in Australia rather than America and Canada cover following except______.
选项
A、old people share great part in whole Australian population
B、technology of extending life is advanced in Australia
C、people gradually recognize that suffering from disease was worse than immediate death
D、it is easy to deal with the moral and practical implications in Australia
答案
D
解析
本题考查对语句意思的理解。第2段的后半部分给出了详尽的解释:安乐死法案被通过,是多方面因素共同作用的结果,.如人口老龄化、寿命延长以及公众态度的变化。因此D项在文中未提及,不是安乐死法案被通过的原因,故D项为答案。
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