血液流盡多数医生说他们知道其他医生也有同样的行为，但是因为即使在病人乞求他们的时候，医生也几乎不能与病人公开讨论安乐死，因此医生往往倾向于仅在要死的人处于垂危昏迷之际而无法表达是否同意安乐死时，才结束其生命。
Most say that know somebody else who does. But because they can rarely discuss euthanasia openly with patients – even when those patients beg them for it – doctors tend to kill only when the dying are too far gone to consent.
由于自愿要求安乐死受到禁止，就只能由医生自行作出决定了，病人会在夜间受到药物注射而非自愿地离开人世。
Thus, because voluntary euthanasia is taboo, a doctor makes the decision himself – and the patient is killed involuntarily in the night with a syringe.
这是不使安乐死公开的代价。
That is one price of keeping euthanasia secret.
如果所有形式的安乐死都是错误的，那就应该统统列入禁止之列。
If all forms of mercy-killing are wrong, they should remain taboo.
可情况果真如此吗？
But are they?
许多人都认为依靠医学技术来延续生命带给人的痛苦是令人悲哀、可憎可恶的，完全不顾人的尊严，因此被动的安乐死——让病人自行死亡——被人们普遍接受。
Because many people accept that it is sad, undignified and gruesome to prolong the throes of death will all the might of medical technology, passive euthanasia – letting patients die – is widely accepted.
美国大多数州都有关于―活遗嘱‖的法规，为医生提供保护。如果医生没有尽力救助曾声明不想延续生命的病人，不会为此受到起诉。
Most American states have ―living – will‖ legislation that protects doctors from prosecution if they do not try to save someone who has said he does not want life prolonged.
主动的安乐死——杀死病人——却依然争论颇多。
Active euthanasia – killing – remains controversial.
