Death is a permanent cessation of all vital functions: the end of life, as stated in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. ... With such a drastic decision to make, on Plum's benefit of well being, is extreme and very odd. ... She rather have sex with him whether he is married or not. ... The examples of killing in Sula also show that in order for murders to occur, the murderers must in some way themselves be dead. ... Suicides in general show that the possibility of killing ones self or a part of ones self is real and that sometimes people get so obsessed with these thoughts,...

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Webster's Dictionary defines euthanasia as a painless and easy death. ... Excessive amounts of morphine can slow down breathing and assist with death. ... A well known example was the mercy killings in 1998 of a patient with ALS by Dr. ... Opponents argue that clinically depressed people need to be provided with counseling and medications. ... I feel that he should have been granted his wishes so that he could have died with dignity and pride. ...

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Knowledge grown with a splendid almost unimpeded, advance. ... Euthanasia is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as " gentle and easy death". ... For example, victims of cancer often have to suffer severe and continuous distress. ... A patient with a stroke may be conscious but helpless. ... For example, there is the cardiac "pacemaker", a machine that can restart a heart that has stopped beating; turn off the machine and the heart stops. ...

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These choices can be made with the help of loved ones. ... Assisted suicide is when an individual takes his or her own life with the aid of someone else. ... 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). ... Another example of euthanasia and the right to die was demonstrated by a 79-year-old man. ... His act is an...

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