Should active assisted suicide be permitted for people who are terminally ill and conscious? ... For those who are terminally ill and conscious that would like to continue their life I stand by them. ... Although a person who is terminally ill and hospitalized may not be given this option. ... I feel it is uncivilized to reject the terminally ill of equal opportunity. ... On the other side I feel the strongest argument is that the terminally ill could then be taken advantage of. ...

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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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The big question is should a person who is terminally ill, in excruciating pain and feels their life is not worth living, be able to end their life. ... Many religious groups believe that human suffering can be a positive value for the terminally ill. ... Others say that pain experienced by the terminally ill can be controlled with tolerable levels through proper pain management, so there is no need for suicide. ... • Sometimes a terminal illness is so painful that is causes life to be an unbearable burden: death can represent a relief of intolerable pain. ... From my own personal exp...

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The ancient philosopher Plato wrote in his book, The Laws, that suicide is only acceptable for people that fit four categories: people who take their lives by legal order, people who are incurably ill, people who are disabled, and people who have disgraced themselves "beyond any hope of self-forgiveness" (5). ... One of those is a hospice (a health care philosophy and practice that attends to the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of the dying), which focuses on "alleviating the physical pain of terminal illness" (Williams 17). ... People with a terminal illness shouldn't have...

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However, isn't forcing hopelessly ill patients to continue their suffering and total dependence on others a devaluation of human life? ... Terminally ill patients like Martha eventually die, and most of the time it is a painful death. ...

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What is pain? In the American Heritage Dictionary, pain is referred to as "an unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder." The word is rooted in Middle English, from an Old French piene, from Latin poena, meaning "penalty ...

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