C-"Medicine is customarily seen as a battle against death", but the eliminations of death can lead to the "quantity of life at the expense of the quality of life." (118) D-"attempts of modernist medicine to prolong life at all costs and the support for cats of "passive euthanasia" hospice practitioners have show that they are not averse to welcoming the onset of biological death. Euthanasia represents a more extreme form of individualism which rejects the embrace of the caring community... (act to die with dignity) 5) In addition to Mal's assisted suicide of pain medication overdose-h...

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When the Oregon physician-assisted suicide statute became law, nurses opposed to suicide on moral grounds were concerned about their ability to exercise their professional autonomy without abandoning their patient. ... The association's White Paper on Assisted Suicide provides guidelines for ethically withdrawing from a case without abandoning the patient for nurses who do not want to be involved, as well as guidelines for nurses willing to care for the patient who is committing physician-assisted suicide.12 Although the principle of respect for autonomy is of major importance, other ...

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The Qur"an justifies medical advances and prohibition against both suicide and euthanasia. ... Over the past decade, Organizations such as the Islamic Organization for medical Science hold regular conferences to deal with issues concerning transplantations, brain death patients, as well as assisted conception, and technology in the intensive care unit. ... Like most traditions, suicide is prohibited as well as euthanasia, abortion of a fetus when the life of the mother is not at risk if the baby is born. ...

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