The Right To Decide Who has the right to say whether a person lives or dies? We have the right to decide. We are in control of your body and hold our lives in our hands, right or wrong we have the option to end our lives, and in extreme cases our families have the right to act on our b...
What is Euthanasia? In our society, euthanasia is most often described as physician-assisted suicide. However, according to the International Task Force on Euthanasia, "Euthanasia has only occurred if a third party performs the act that intentionally causes a patient's death. [ ] If the person who...
Assisted Suicide; Who Has the Right to Choose? Euthanasia or assisted suicide is a very sensitive and debatable topic in today's society. Webster's Dictionary defines euthanasia as a painless and easy death. However there are many religious, moral, and ethical arguments against this method that is ...
Right-to-die is advocating or expressing, as in a living will, a person's right to refuse extraordinary life-sustaining measures intended to prolong life artificially when the person is deemed by his or her physicians to be terminally or incurably ill (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language). ...
Knowledge grown with a splendid almost unimpeded, advance. Day by day we are becoming more knowledgeable about basic concerns such as birth, health, and death. It is a mark of progress to discover new problems and to solve ancient problems. Questions about death and dying are now often asked in publ...