For those of you who are not exactly sure euthanasia is the practise of painlessly ending the life of a person who has an incurable disease or handicap. ... What right do we have to deny this person the choice? ... Annie Lindsell, a campaigner for euthanasia and suffering from Motor Neurone Disease said before she died... What right have we to deny those sufferers the right to have control and to die with dignity? ... Don't you think after all this you have the right to die? ...

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In medical situation, a disease will let a patient feel painful. ... A patient has got painful during the disease, it's really awful and let him/her feel depress. ... In this situation, a patient would like to end his/her life, so he/she can choose what he/she wants to do. ... You and everyone has the right to do whatever you want with your body, with one exception: you can kill yourself. ... For example, if patients' pains are brutal, we can let them to choose what they want to do, because we do not like to see them feel bad and uncomfortable. ...

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The health care agencies deal with health promotion, disease prevention, detection and treatment of disease, and rehabilitation. ... Disease prevention is detecting signs of certain disease before they become serious problems. ... So you have to keep an open mind to all the diversity you will be exposed to. ... I don't know what an ombudsperson is. ... I would have to listen to someone tell me what to do and not get any say whats so ever. ...

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More specifically that man is suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); a disease that affects the neurological system. There is no cure for this disease, and the only good that can come out of having it is the chance to say goodbye. The chance to educate people on the meaning of life and the chance to give back what so many have given you. ... The lessons you learn just by reading the book are tremendous. ...

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They also went on to explain that it is each individual states job to decide what policy it would care to have regarding this issue. ... For example if a women is taken off of feeding tubes the disease does not kill her but rather she starves. ... It is also a very used practice to give terminally ill patients medication that will ease pain while hastening death it seems that you are assisting in suicide of that patient and some people would say you are killing them. ... Brock is confusing causality and culpability if someone refuses life-sustaining treatment it is the disease that kills, b...

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Here in this world, our society is basically are all based on what magazines, books, television shows and movies contains. ... When you turn the pages of any teenage magazines like Seventeen, YM and Teen People, it is most likely for you to come across an anti smoking or tobacco ad. ... What about coming out with the latest anti-smoking ads? ... If you go to their website at www.thetruth.com, you will probably notice many anti-smoking ads, which I believe, contains some pretty graphic pictures. ... At the bottom of this photo, there are three phrases typed with what it seems like, the font of ...

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More specifically that man is suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); a disease that affects the neurological system. ... Morrie had the chance to educate people on the meaning of life and the chance to give back what so many have given you; I think Morrie does exactly that, in this novel and in life. ... Death is a very powerful thing and you can see how Morrie reacted to it as you read this final thesis of Mitch. ... He once said that you must learn how to die, before you learn how to live. ... As you can see in Morrie's perspective is the s...

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Here we live in a world where money is the most important thing to everyone, where as honor and how you carry the family name are important to the characters in the book. ... When the disease hit the town of Tarumi, it was devastating to the little town. ... -Matsu when talking about the disease Matsu is the loner type in the book. ... In Kenzo's mind, he felt that his honor was broken when he fought with Matsu and said what he did to Sachi. ... Each one goes through different ways of dealing with what they have done, some more extreme than others. ...

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Ebola is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with a strain of Ebola virus. ... Since the disease is spread through body fluids, even the families of the dead are scared to bury their loved ones. ... James Hendy, a native of the ghost town of Monrovia, Liberia narrates what his routine is on daily basis and how death is on his doorstep every day. ... "I love my country broda (brother) but if Ebola continues killing my people at this rate, then no more Liberia you know? ... If the CDC (Center for Disease Control) doesn't take this virus as serious as it is, it will reach American ...

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According to the World Book Encyclopedia, euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases. ... But what most doctors do not realize is you should treat the patient, not the disease. ... So the question is not if the disease is cured or treated but if the patient is content and treated. ... You want nothing more than to ease her suffering, but you cannot. ... It can help many patients and one day you might even wish is was legal. ...

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My Dear Katherine, I have not written to you in a long time, but I have been thinking of you every single day. ... Getting up everyday not knowing what may happen, death may be around the corner for all we know. ... The trench is dirty, smelly and infested with rats spreading disease. ... In fear of diseases and of course, the constant fear of enemy attack. ... Take care my darling, I'll write to you soon. ...

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What's important is that the choice is available to anyone who qualifies."... Watching someone you love and care about actively die is devastating and painful. ... Cancer is not the only disease that can lead to a lingering but certain death. ... The Death with Dignity Act allowed Mike to take control of this terrible disease and cut short his suffering. ... I wish there was a cure for my disease but there's not." ...

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The act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable disease, a painful, disease or condition." ... The View Of The Christian Church The first think that the church thinks it that in the ten commandments the 6th one in "Thou Shalt Not Kill" but that is what Euthanasia is, yes you may have the permission of the person but it is still but down as Murder. ... The thing is that Christians Believe that God created Man and no one should be able to take that previous thing that you may as well onl...

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Euthanasia What's the hardest thing that you have ever had to decide? ... What is it? Its definition goes as follows - The deliberate putting to death painlessly of a person suffering from an incurable disease, also called mercy killing. ... These are questions one should ask oneself before they even consider what they want for their family, or even themselves. ... It is you life and you should live it the way that you want to, and if that means being a vegetable for a few years, then so be it. ...

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In the story you learn immediately of the death of Mrs. ... You also are told right off of her heart trouble and her friends reasons for breaking the news to her slowly. At first, I felt horrible for the woman, but the way her reaction was described, you know something was wrong. ... The line, "She had died of heart disease-of joy that kills," was clear because of what she cries out and what she was said to have been feeling. par Her husband possessed her. ...

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In the name of science, it's important to dig these people up and dissect them in order to find out what their past was. Then again, it is disrespectful to them to dig them up from their grave in order to find out what they"re all about. ... Some kind of herb found in a pocket of their still preserved pockets could be the cure to AIDS or some other disease that threatens modern man. ... If you had died today would you want your body poked and prodded by a bunch of 1st year med students, your intestines and vital organs hanging out like fresh meat for the grinding. ... The way the p...

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Aids is a disease that has no present cure and can be contracted through many different ways whether it is from drug use, sexual contact, and even blood transfusions. ... Okay, so you weren't happy with your brother's sexual preferences, but learn to look past them and think about what he wanted. That is all that matters; what he wanted. ... I can understand what the lover is saying here. ... I really do not know what I would do. ...

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To begin, everyone goes about their lives everyday not knowing what comes next. ... Diseases are a very unfortunate and terrifying thing that has to be dealt with in everyday life. ... Death with dignity, what is it? ... That it is still their life and it shouldn't be completely taken over by a disease. ... What exactly is the Hippocratic Oath? ...

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For example, if a person has some sort of disease and is hooked up to all sorts of toobs and machines and takes many kinds of medication with strong effects and side-effects and also this person cant get out of bed because is crippled. Now, what kind of life is that? ... I"m still not sure weather I agree with euthanasia or not, because this topic has so many sides that are good and bad that it makes you think real hard. ...

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'If Jack were a dog, I thought, what would be done to him?' ... We may believe that we are dying of a disease when, as a matter of fact, we may not be... A chance to survive a disease so painful that you could only moan for those few days before death; with family members standing helplessly by. What would your ideal choice be? ... What if Jack were your brother, your husband, or your son; would you let him suffer or die painlessly? ...

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She is only thirty-six years old and tells you that she feels her time is up and now all she wants is to say her goodbyes and she wants help ending her life. What do you do? Is the answer euthanasia, or do you let her live out the rest of her short life in pain and misery? ... In a typical situation, a person has some terrible, deadly disease. ... In addition, one should have the right to end his life by euthanasia because of the unsolicited pain, suffering, and misery he feels due to the disease he has or the condition he is in. ...

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He took in the world or at least what he still could. ... Whether he died in his sleep or because of Lou Gherig's disease, he would die with no regrets, and that's what was important to Morrie. ... I won't be afraid of what I haven't accomplished. I will live and die by Morrie words: "When you have learned to die, you have learned to live." ...

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"Here or elsewhere-what difference did it make? ... Either from starvation, exhaustion, disease, or at the hands of an SS officer. ... First attacking the body, until you look like the living dead, and then the soul, until you become the living dead. ... The very point that sons turned on their fathers and fathers on their sons was what Elie Wiesel described as the breaking down of the human spirit. the night refers to this. ...

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Euthanasia Euthanasia is the act of painlessly putting to death, or allowing to die, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, or painful, disease. ... It's really hard to see someone suffer that you have known and loved for a very long time. ... I know it's not legal but I think it should be if people are suffering and that's what they want. ...

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What happens when the body is past mending? ... What do I believe? ... The tape was of Kevorkian directly administering drugs to a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrigs disease. ... In Corinthians 3:16 it is stated "Don't you know that yourselves are Gods temple and that Gods spirit lives in you? ... I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. ...

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