The most important reason for this argument is the patients who is suffering from the serious disease have n9o right to choose their life. Furthermore, new medicine might be invented, also, it is an immoral act to take people's life even though the person is terminally ill. ... However, the reason for these patients killed by Euthanasia is they are too ill to choose their life, and it could be said that who decide to take others life should be assumed or punished , including their family members, because life is belong to patients themselves but not the family members" emotional. A...

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In 1972, a petition was made to legalize marijuana for medical patients. ... This procedure enabled a few patients to receive marijuana from the government. ... Most patients never consider the idea of an illegal drug as being their best medicine. ... There are countless numbers of stories that impart unfortunate circumstances concerning ill people using marijuana. One particular story is about a man named Peter McWilliams, the author of the book Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do, and is a severely ill AIDS patient. ...

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In most places Euthanasia is illegal, because they cannot be sure if the patient really want's it. ... That is why as long as there are terminally ill people, euthanasia should be legal. ... In order to perform euthanasia, the patient must sign a will saying he, of his own free will, has specifically asked to be euthanised. ... Of you were terminally ill and had bone cancer for example, you might choose euthanasia occur dying a very painful death. ... At hospitals owned or managed by religious groups euthanasia is forbidden and most doctors refuse to become involved are furthe...

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Before he died, he wrote movingly of his experiences with another terminal patient. ... In doing so the patient is choosing for himself. ... This attitude would then carry over to their dealings with patients less seriously ill. ... Having new cures that are successful will reduce the number of patients wanting to die. ... Terminally ill patients are people who will never attain a personal existence, never experience life as a net value, and/or never achieve a minimal level of independence. ...

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Today's euthanasia generally refers to mercy killing, the voluntary ending of the life of someone who is terminally or hopelessly ill. Knowing that, it is seemingly appropriate to say that one has the right to die an easy death if and only if he is terminally ill. ... In considering suffering of terminal patients, one cannot exclude from thought the grief due to distress, fear, and agony. ... The final element worthy of discussion in legalizing euthanasia is an individual's frustration in living, in his opinion, a valueless life after becoming critically ill. ... The American Medic...

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It is sometimes the act of ending someone's life, who is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. ... Usually, patients with a terminal disease see everything they cherished fall apart. For example, a cancer patient who is in the last stage would feel pain so great that, when he dies, he would remember the world not full of love, but full of pain. ...

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It is sometimes the act of ending someone's life, who is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. ... Usually, patients with a terminal disease see everything they cherished fall apart. For example, a cancer patient who is in the last stage would feel pain so great that, when he dies, he would remember the world not full of love, but full of pain. ...

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Some people would argue that euthanasia should be illegal since no one can be one hundred percent sure a patient is in pain if they are in a coma or are unable to communicate. However, doctors do not mercy kill unless they are sure the patient is in pain. ... These laws should ensure only the patient is the one who can decide if they want to be put to death, rather than the children, wife, etc. ... Euthanasia or mercy killing allows people who are in severe pain to be put to rest and it is also a choice the patient should be able to make. Having said this, euthanas...

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Optimistic people are less likely to become ill, and when they do become ill, tend to live longer and suffer less. ... Some applications of mind/body medicine are support groups for patients, guided imagery, meditation, exercise, ect... ... The patients were then followed up for a period of five years to see who had major cardiac events over that time. ... These researchers studied immune response in a group of 40 patients with malignant melanomas. ... The patients who participated in the above study were followed for six years. ...

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In California, Proposition 215; a law legalizing marijuana by doctors prescription said that "Exempts patients and defined caregivers who possess or cultivate marijuana for medical treatment recommended by a physician from criminal laws which otherwise prohibit possession or cultivation of marijuana." This law allows the physician to write prescriptions to patients without any denied and contact with the law. ... Doctors are saying that "many people are too ill or unskilled to grow their own pot, they risk arrest by resorting to buying it on the street his to the government for a law to be p...

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Some dismiss medical marijuana as a hoax that exploits our natural compassion for the sick; others claim it is a uniquely soothing medicine that has been withheld from patients through regulations based on false claims (Joy). ... Glaucoma, AIDS, cancer and MS patients have all benefited from the drug. ... The terminally ill patients marijuana use does not pose a threat to the public or encourage the illegal trafficking of drugs. ...

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The patient was then given marijuana and was able to continue through his chemotherapy and eventually was cured. That same patient no longer smokes marijuana and credits his life to the plant. It is also used as a last resort when no other prescription medication will work in the patient's favor. ... What patients absolutely need it should also be clearly outlined and not left open ended in the proposition. ... Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides, the ill persons have already seen first hand what the effects of the plant does for them. ...

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Huang Ti, from China, observed that frustration can make people physically ill. ... As a child, a typical cancer patient was isolated and lonely. ... It was learned that patients with certain personality traits have slow-growing tumors while with the others the disease proved fatal. Those patients with fast progression of the illness were defensive and depressed. ... So the tension in the individual needs to be relived because even through surgery if the subject continues to be emotionally ill the ulcer will come back. ...

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It has been said that the drug is worth investigating and even providing as a medicine for pain relief, severe nausea, and appetite stimulation for seriously ill patients. ... Patients with A-motivational Syndrome are left with the well-recognized and permanent symptoms of memory loss, apathy and loss of motivation. ...

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TEACHING AND COUNSELLING METHODS At there is a classroom set aside for grade nine students who have behavioral and academic problems in any given course. It was here that I gained much of my teaching practice. It was an incredible experience to realize that not all students learn at the same pac...

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Millions of people are diagnosed with AIDS or cancer every year. Although there is no cure, doctors have discovered that marijuana is one step in the right direction. Marijuana is also used for many other purposes. To the AIDS or cancer patient, it is the plant that fights nausea and appetite loss...

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War on Drugs." 1.) I have criticized President Nixon's, "War on Drugs" both morally and on expediential grounds. Do we have the right to stop an individual from becoming an addict? Force, direct or indirect, should not be allowed to prevent a person's choice to take drugs or alcohol. The ethical...

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Animal testing or vivisection, as it is commonly called, promises to cure ills through animal experimentation. ... The numbers to back up this claim are over 440,000 open-heart surgeries are performed and 11,000 kidneys are transplanted every year, not to mention that animal experimentation has made possible the salvation of 20,000 kidney dialysis patients each year. ...

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