Allot of people like to look at it as suicide(Medical-Surgical Nursing 114). ... Many religions feel euthanasia is a sin. ... In Australia anyone who advises, assist of counsels someone to take their life will get jail time. Another issue that must be thought about is weather assisting someone to die is the same as killing them, of weather letting them die is the same as committing a crime. ... there fore letting death occur or assisting death to do occur may be the ethical thing to do for the severely ill or can not lice with the pain anymore. ...

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Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle viewed suicide a cowardly way of avoiding hardships and duties of life. However, all 3 great philosophers were against prohibiting suicide in every situation. They allowed suicide if someone was in great pain or in an incurable disease. ... Euthanasia prevents medical advancement. ... They fear that patients could opt for physician assisted suicide, or euthanasia, when at an extremely low ebb, when, had they waited even a few days, they would have made a completely different decision. ...

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Euthanasia, is one of the most controversial issues of our time. ... So long as the right to die means not prolonging the life by undesireable treatment, it may be classified as rational suicide. The term "euthanasia" means "good health" or "well dying"; it is derived from the Greek "eu" and "thanatos". ... In Greek literature, euthanasia connoted a "happy death, an ideal and coveted end to a full and pleasant life." ... Historical evidence, however, indicates that it was "common practice for Grecian and Roman physicians to assist in suicide". ...

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What is euthanasia? ... An argument people have used against euthanasia is that the Constitution, guarantees the right to life, but not the right to death. ... Another part of the Constitution, opponents argue is that attempted suicide is a crime, so how can euthanasia be legal? ... People who commit suicide are merely depressed and think their life cannot get any better. ... Also, sixty-eight percent thought that guidelines for withholding or withdrawing treatment should be established and forty-five percent were in favor of legislation of active euthanasia under certain circumstances...

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Larsen, there is a very clear message supporting the need for legalized euthanasia. Larsen tries to convince the reader to support assisted suicide by using very explicit details in describing the suffering the old woman is experiencing. He is clearly a supporter of active euthanasia, where an overt effort is made to bring about death, such as administering a lethal injection. ... Proponents for euthanasia justify their case on the three moral principles of mercy, autonomy, and justice (Battin 18). ... Although I am not a definite proponent of active euthanasia, I do support passive euthana...

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