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Exercise 2 - Adding details to a body paragraph



Instructions: The following paragraph has problems with missing details. The numbers inside the paragraph indicate the places where details are missing. Click on the EDIT PARAGRAPH button to add details in the box provided (where the numbers indicate) to create a more detailed paragraph. Click on the HINT button to get ideas for missing details.

     Euthanasia must remain illegal because legalizing it could lead to its abuse. Being very needy and vulnerable, terminally ill patients are easily manipulated by family members and the medical community. (1) The chances of something like this happening are drastically reduced if euthanasia remains illegal. Family members are not the only ones who could abuse euthanasia. The medical community could also abuse it to solve problems caused by limited budget. This is what happened in England recently when hospital administrators were facing tight funding and very high demand for hospital beds. To deal with this crisis, they allowed only limited care to patients whose chances of recovery were doubtful. (2) Because it is virtually impossible to ensure that euthanasia would not be abused, it must remain illegal.
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