When the person was ill with any type of disease that could not be treated, or what is called a terminal illness, a poison was put in the cup of the victim. ... When a person is terminally ill, his family might suggest the possibility of euthanasia, when in fact, the person that is ill can only request it. ... The family may offer spiritual input, but is not involved in the final decision, nor can a family member request euthanasia for an ill family member. ... Some doctors are helping terminally ill patients commit suicide-a so-called physician-assisted suicide-without being punished. ......

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Under patients' rights laws dating from the 1960's the mentally ill cannot be forced into treatment involuntarily in any state unless they are dangerous or so gravely disabled that they cannot care for themselves. In short, the laws protecting patients' rights also protect their "right- to be mentally ill. ... Advocates that are pressing for state laws that would make it easier to force patients to take medication under court order are faced with the opposition from civil libertarians and former patients, who see the issue not as a question of medicine but of civil rights. .....

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Because of the new discoveries as to treat the mentally ill in the1950s, dangerous medicines and operations were used on people without much research. ... The mid-1950s was when patient numbers were in its highest peak. ... The number of mentally ill patients and the number of asylums are at its highest point in the 1950s, because of the lack of effective treatments to dismiss patients from hospitals, but the number quickly fell soon after. The lobotomy, where part of the brain is removed or separated to allow the patient to no longer be depressed, was thought to be one of the most effective...

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If living persons become so ill that they cannot tolerate the pain they have a "right to die" to an escape from torment. ... Simmons, 112) There is still a question involved in the contemporary debates about euthanasia which is posed by a case such as the terminally ill who are dying. ... People also believe that patients' wishes should be respected, but that seems not always best for the patients. ... The reason: They are suffering 'needlessly'; their lives are 'useless'; they are terminally ill, or comatose, or have nothing to live for.' Of course, the...

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A terminally ill patient is lying on her deathbed waiting for the cancer to take her. ... In the past couple of years, some individuals that have been diagnosed terminally ill have chosen to die with dignity. ... Although some critics may argue that the Dying with Dignity Act or the Right-to-die debate goes against the natural doctor's hippocratic oath, terminally ill patients have a right to choose when they die. ... Letting the disease dictate is giving it a sense of power it does not deserve to have, terminally ill patients should make their own decision regarding when they die, and li...

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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. ... Patients that are terminally and hopelessly ill are not the only ones suffering. ... Terminally ill patients that suffer from illnesses that make them unable to communicate do not want to live any longer. ... No one other than the patient has any right to deny the patient his way of dying. ... Most branches of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, believe that Euthanasia is immoral and they oppose killing patients that are terminally ill under any circ...

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A person would have to be diagnosed as terminally ill. ... Many terminally ill people are living in excessive pain for long periods of time. ... Although many physicians oppose assisted suicide, arguing that patients should seek proper medical care, most terminally ill people die in excessive pain due to inadequate care. Some terminally ill choose assisted suicide because of large medical bills that begin to add up. ... I don't think euthanasia should be used on elderly people who are not terminally ill as a means to clear space. ...

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But making organ transplant more feasible, it soon became the first alternative for ill patients. ... Patients who are less ill than others often get transplants, whilst others die waiting for a donor to appear. ... If the first ranked person in the region cannot accept then the organ, the organ is then offered to lesser ill patients in that region. ... The regional system is said to be unfair because moderately sick patients receive the organs while terminally ill patients are dying because organs are not available in their region (Organ Allocation). ... Under poor conditions the organs are r...

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Beauchamp, Professor of Philosophy at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics wrote an article entitled "Euthanasia" for Encarta (the online encyclopedia), describing the different forms of euthanasia as follows: a) active euthanasia is painlessly putting individuals to death for merciful reasons, as when a doctor administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient; b) passive euthanasia involves not doing something to prevent death, as when doctors refrain from using an artificial respirator to keep alive a terminally ill patient; c) voluntary euthanasia, a person asks to die ...

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For instance, someone who is terminally ill and is suffering everyday is going to die eventually. ... A person should absolutely be able to decide to end their life if they are suffering or terminally ill. ... An example of this would be a patient ding from an overdose of pain killers. ... In this type of euthanasia, the primary objective is not to kill the patient. ... A person who is terminally ill may choose voluntary euthanasia because they have a poor quality of life. ...

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But how can someone assist a terminally ill person in taking their life and not risk going to jail for it? ... Should people who are terminally ill, go through pain and suffering, or should they have a choice? ... However, if a doctor simply places the lethal injection by the patient's side, and the patient injects himself or herself, the doctors would be charged with assisted suicide. ... Doctors have been trying to help terminally ill patients who no longer wish to live (Emanuel 2). ... People must put themselves in the place of a terminally ill person. ...

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The Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order on a terminally ill patient's chart is a form of passive euthanasia. ... Passive euthanasia takes place in the final sages of a terminally ill patient's life. ... Active euthanasia, on the other hand, involves deliberate, premeditated action on the part of the patient, physician or family member. ... Active euthanasia intercepts the normal progression of an illness and terminates life at a point decided by the terminally ill person. ... Many patients choose active euthanasia prior to the incapacitating, painful finality of an illness. ...

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If a doctor presents the patient with all of their options and the patient decides to suicide, there should be no problem. ... He relates the story of a patient that had multiple sclerosis. ... Strohm also suggests that a patient who is terminally ill may not want to prolong the inevitable. ... One might observe that terminally ill patients should be allowed the right to doctor assisted suicide. ... One might conclude that doctor assisted suicide for terminally ill patients should be legalized....

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He is, instead, innocently complying with a request from a terminally ill person to end his pain. ... Therefore, physician-assisted suicides increase dignity in death, and can be legally consented to by both the ill and the ill's family members. ... For example, the dying patient must ask on more than one occasion for a physician to help them die. ... The physician actually obtains informed consent from the patient. ... I suggest that the decision must be up to the patient. ...

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This prohibition has denied thousands of critically ill patients a drug that would effectively treat their illness and relieve their pain. ... Graham Boyd, an attorney representing a group of plaintiffs including eleven prominent cancer and AIDS physicians in San Francisco presented to a federal judge on Friday, April 11, 1997 the following statement: "The federal government has issued broad threats against physicians who might recommend marijuana to some of their seriously ill patients. ... We assert that doctors have the right to discuss medical marijuana with patients, and we are seeki...

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The goal of palliative care is to achieve the best quality of life for patients and families" (75). ... Terminally ill patients also suffer from breathing difficulties, nausea, vomiting, malaise, confusion, nightmares, sleeping disorders, and other problems that are not well understood (57). ... Tube feeding is common for patients who are unable to eat or drink on their own. Choice in Dying, a national organization dedicated to serving the needs of the dying, maintains that "it is acceptable to withdraw nutritional life support from the terminally ill. ... For patients at the end of their li...

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This bill was appropriately called The Patient's Bill of Rights. ... I have seen patients being forced to take medication. ... The IGAP stated they had a complaint about a patient being forced to take antipsychotic medication, even though the patient was not a threat. ... Elyn Saks, who is a psychiatry professor at the University of Southern California wrote a book titled: Refusing Care: Forced Treatments and the Rights of the Mentally Ill. ... Patient advocacy groups" main goal is the protection of the mentally ill, not the convenience of the courts. ...

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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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Even some medical professionals think that a terminally ill patient does not in fact have the right to die. ... From there the patient must be able to communicate and understand the decision which is being made. ... To deny a terminally ill patient the right to death, is to force the individual and their family to endure pain, suffering, and financial strain. One thing many people do not consider with cases of terminally ill patients, is that keeping them alive for what will be an inevitable death often cost thousands of dollars each month. ... Of this 155 group, only 105 of the patients actua...

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The three central aims of hospices are: • To relieve patients pain. • To enable patients and families to face up to death. ... A hospice offers care to both the patient and their family at the most difficult stages in their lives. ... Many people argue that a person who is terminally ill may could make miraculous recovery - something which has happened in the past. ... Medical advances in recent years have made it possible to keep terminally ill people alive for an extended period of time, without any hope of improvement or recovery. ...

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Existing Issues • Patients refusing certain medical services • Staff refusing to provide certain services • Staff providing DNR orders with out written proof • Staff not providing DNR orders that are written • Staff pharmacists taking installment payments • Un-authorized services for free • Staff refusal to serve patients with out insurance confirmation • Fruitless examinations for terminally ill • Increased patient cost In evaluation of these issues, we must look at the possible causes of these issues. ... Looking at the issue o...

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When a patient facing death demands the right to an experimental drug, is it responsible to give them a chance or is it necessary to prioritize the impact that decision can have on millions of other patients and their families in the larger global community. ... We must ask ourselves whether an individual patient or small group of patients' immediate needs is justification to bypass the FDA framework that is designed to protect the public. ... If we view experimental drugs as an industry and the patients as the customers, the very nature of the customers is that they are looking for anyt...

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In most cases older people become ill more frequently and stay ill longer. ... The extra medical attention they prescribe for their patients causes an increase in demand for doctors and their time. ... Technological advancements in the medical field have also added to the costs that patients pay for care. ... This situation seems ideal; however, patients do not always receive as high quality care as they would receive without an HMO. ... Patients receive discounts for the care receive and end up paying for a small fraction of what their care actually costs. ...

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For example a doctor gives a lethal injection to a patient. ... These procedures are usually performed on the terminally ill, suffering patients, so that natural death will occur sooner. ... These diseases leave the patient in a constant state of pain sometimes lasting many weeks or months. ... Many other faith groups believe that human suffering can have a positive value for the terminally ill person and for their direct family. ... By passing legislation that allows euthanasia we're getting the right to doctors and patients to end their lives. ...

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Patients exhibit mental confusion, agitation and delirium. Patients with primary exposure tended to have a substantially higher mortality rate than those exposed as secondary infections. ... When first examined, patients are usually overly ill, dehydrated, apathetic and disoriented. Most of the patients develop severe hemorrhagic manifestations, usually between days 5 and 7. ... No became ill but two did develop antibodies for Ebola Reston. ...

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