Also known as assisted suicide, it is a very controversial issue. There have been very strong opinions form both for and against assisted suicide. ... It deals with basically the same thing as assisted suicide, when a doctor consoles the patient's family, and come to a decision of pulling the plug. ... It is said that an assisted suicide occurs every day, yet Oregon is the only state where assisted suicide has been legalized. ...

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This is called PAS or "Physician Assisted Suicide." ... People have many different reasons for wanting to commit suicide. ... To them suicide maybe a permanent solution to a temporary problem. ... Suicide is not a preferred solution. ... Suicide is sin. ...

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Today's society has many different names for it such as: suicide, self-deliverance, auto-euthanasia, aid-in-dying, assisted suicide, death with dignity, and playing God. ... I am glad that assent-suicide is a crime in most places, including here. ...

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Euthanasia is also known as mercy killing or assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is when someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. ...

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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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