When a patient has a terminal illness, they are suffering greatly. ... Forcing a person to suffer the pain that comes with a terminal illness is uncompassionate. ... 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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Some feel that a terminally ill patient should have a legal right to control the manner in which they die. ... Many families of the terminally ill have exhausted all of their funds caring for a dying patient and would prefer the option of assisted suicide to bankruptcy. While there are many strong opposing viewpoints, one of the strongest is that the terminally ill patient has the right to die in a humane, dignified manner. However, dignity in dying is not necessarily assured when a trusted doctor, whose professional ethics are to promote and maintain life, injects a terminally ill patient wit...

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They found that 47% of Americans are in favor of allowing physician-assisted suicide for those that are terminally ill while a close 49% are against it. ... All these things would be more or less a perfect description of the everyday life of a terminally ill patient. ... Most of the reasons why terminally ill patients request doctors to assist them in committing suicide might be caused by problems such as hopelessness because there is no effective treatment, anxiety over doctors' very expensive fees, and regret for their family's burden of taking care of them. ... A painless life u...

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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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His aim was to help the hopeless patients who are terminally ill or suffering from debilitating pain to commit suicide effortlessly. ... Jack Kevorkian tackled one of the most controversial issues in the 1990's, if not still to this day, regarding euthanasia and the rights a terminally ill person has to end their life with assisted suicide. ... Not until learning about the story of Brittney Maynard, the 29-year-old who had terminal brain cancer, never have I thought of this topic before, but the film put the idea of euthanasia into perspective. ... The government should not have the rig...

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For people who are suffering from terminal illnesses an early death avoids months and maybe years of painful suffering. ... Society's interest in life preservation should be lessened when a person is terminally ill and has strong desire to end their life. ... This is not very different from competent, terminally ill patients being allowed to hasten death by refusing treatment, which could prolong life. ... If a person has a good reason for considering death, for instance, they are elderly and terminal and suffering - it would be unspeakably meddlesome to interfere. ...

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This is referred to as assisted suicide, a physician providing an ill, yet competent person with medication to aid in committing suicide. ... Comfort care also suggests that doctors simply do what they can to make life happier for the terminally ill and their family any way they possibly can whether it is through kind words, bright smiles, or funny jokes; anything just to lighten the air and the shoulders of those being burdened by a great illness. ...

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Euthanasia, by virtue of being offered only to terminally ill patients, is meant to offer a quick and, by comparison, painless death to people who would have otherwise had to face the hardships of a prolonged death. ...

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