Sarco & assisted suicide. Ben Treloar, Greenshaw High School

Sarco, a recent, controversial topic in the media recently, is a newly developed machine that gives chronically ill patients the option to peacefully end their lives, in the same way we grant painless deaths to our pets. The idea stems from a case in the UK of Tony Nicklinson, someone who unfortunately developed locked-in syndrome and requested for a doctor to peacefully end his life, as he was unable to do so himself; refused, Tony was forced to live for 9 years paralysed from the neck down, ab