Analyse and explain the way in which a religious or moral issue has been dealt with in a television soap opera or the national daily press.

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Analyse and explain the way in which a religious or moral issue has been dealt with in a television soap opera or the national daily press.

I decided to choose an article from the daily press that deals with the moral issue of euthanasia. There are many articles about euthanasia but I was drawn to this one. The article was headlined 'A mothers right to decide'. It was about a devoted mother who unfortunately has a severely disabled son, who eventually won a legal battle against doctors who wanted to let her son die without her consent. The controversy that surrounds this is, does the mother have the right to decide what happens to her son, or should it be left up to the professionals?

The article explains how in October 1998 the mother's son David was taken to hospital with serious respiratory infection and his condition worsened. The doctors decided to remove him from his life support and inject him with diamorphine to let him slip away, however his 'mother insisted she wanted treatment to continue.'

There was a 'scuffle at hospital' as she pulled tubes from David's body and the police were