This brings up the controversial and moral debate of legalization of P.A.D. ... There have been a number of people supporting the legalization of euthanasia. ... This is one of many polls taken in the U.S. and like in this PARADE poll, most people agree with the legalization of euthanasia. ... If religious leaders believe and practice euthanasia why can our legislatures realize the benefits of legalizing euthanasia. ... If the legislatures refuse to legalize the act of P.A.D. and euthanasia, they better find more advanced methods of palliative care and better medicine. ...

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Life's Sanctity "Do you know what it's like to be unable to scratch an itch or pull up a blanket? Do you know the horror of "living" with no sensory stimulation other than torturous pain for days upon days, weeks upon weeks, months upon months and years upon years" (Larsen 77)? In "Put Me Out o...

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There lies the solution to the drug problem; not in brutality, but understanding; in a willingness to go beyond the immoral, simplistic, and ignorant response of torture and seek, through logical and reasonable methods, to end the proliferation of drugs and the terrible pain they cause. ... Should drugs be legalized the prices would plummet and so all crimes related to drugs (i.e., crimes to obtain the money to buy them) would not have to be committed. ... Isn't human life though, according to those who take such drastically invasive methods to "protect" it through such reprehensible viol...

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There lies the solution to the drug problem; not in brutality, but understanding; in a willingness to go beyond the immoral, simplistic, and ignorant response of torture and seek, through logical and reasonable methods, to end the proliferation of drugs and the terrible pain they cause. ... Should drugs be legalized the prices would plummet and so all crimes related to drugs (i.e., crimes to obtain the money to buy them) would not have to be committed. ... Isn't human life though, according to those who take such drastically invasive methods to "protect" it through such reprehensible viol...

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In fact, there is nothing dignified about the methods they advocate. I do not think causing suffocation with a plastic bag, which is one of the methods the supporters of assisted suicide use, is the way in which people would like to die. ...

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However there are many religious, moral, and ethical arguments against this method that is currently illegal . ... Since it was legalized in November of 1997, there have been 43 people that have taken advantage of assisted suicide which is protected under Murphy Law. ...

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