We believe that the right of women to control their own fertility is a fundamental human right. ... How could the doctor prove that the decision made had a sound reason to it? ... Passive involves, doing nothing to prevent death - allowing someone to die. ... Opinion: I believe that everyone has the right to choose how he or she lives and dies. ... How can people be expected to live their lives like this? ...

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Other people around him will think they are better than him because they are not dying. ... Donne also says whenever we die, we do not go away, but we go to a new higher place. Everybody dies in various ways (sickness, age, war, etc.). There will be that one-day where we all will be brought together. ... In the fifth paragraph, he talks about how there are some people that do not need the bell and can hear the ringing within them. ...

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Most people believe that God is for our lives and then once we die and our places and determined he is still there for us. No matter who we were, how we died, or where we reside for all eternity. ... He still feels and cares for us; just he knows that we must pay for the wasted lives we led. ... Which just go to show how great he is. Also in the meditation Donne states "No man is an Island, entire of itself- which tells us that no matter how great we think we are, we are part of something greater then ourselves, a community of people, a community of God, or a community of every living thi...

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The world we live in is thousand years old. ... Many animals and human beings were born and died. ... For what they did and how it affected them and other people. ... Thus we see death is made valid by the tasks of life. ... A man does not have to work that hard if he wants to die. ...

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She might not agree with her regarding Jem's innocence, but she knows how much it means to her friend. ... Up until chapter 24, With the Dying, Mary is not a very religious person. ... We are all human, and we all die alone. For the faithful, we die with the hope that God will forgive us our trespasses, and deliver us from evil. And most importantly in this world, we die with the hope that we can forgive those who trespass against us. ...

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Civil Liberties includes rights as abortion, the right to die, and gay rights. ... This seems to be the case however in the United States, every day we are becoming morally less of a country, and abortion as well as gay rights seem to be something that everyone thinks that we must accept, simply because we are not in the 19th century anymore, well they are wrong. ... Once again this is a good example of how homosexuals are trying to extend the rights issued to traditional couples and pass it as their own. We need to help treat these people, not j...

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Human Limitation of Knowledge Human beings are put on this earth not knowing where we came from or why we are here. ... Death is part of life and we are all going to die sometime but if everyone knew when it would happen it would create panic among everyone. ... It would also create carelessness among the world because people who knew that they were going to die soon wouldn't go to work or take care or their normal responsibilities. ... Rumi's works have taught me a lot about why we don't know the stuff that we don't. Humans just aren't meant to know their future or...

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He is an example how people are going to get used to it and it will lead people to become murderers. ... This is how bad things could get. ... Natural dying is when a person dies by him/her self, naturally, not by someone killing him/her. ... Are we sometimes being a little too godlike ourselves?" ... A physician is not a hundred percent sure that a patient will die. ...

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In The Song of Roland: Shame and Honor, we are presented with the moral tensions that a noble hero must face. ... His courage allowed him to be willing to die at the site after sounding the horn. ... It was better to die, than to live shamefully being looked upon as a coward. ... In the selections on Charlemagne we see him portrayed as a man who took interest in the lives of those that surrounded him. ... We have seen how Roland, Beowulf, and Charlemagne were classified as nobles by possessing one if not more than one of these characteristics. ...

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We go through all the trouble to adapt to one method, why should we uproot ourselves and change things just to do it a different way. ... Thousands of people die from hunger every day, most of them in poor, underdeveloped countries. ... There is no need for children to die a slow, horrible death of hunger and malnutrition. ... Cloning could also "bring back" a baby or infant that died before it actually had a chance to live this wonderful life. ... Another benefit of human cloning is that it will allow scientists to better understand how to help burn and spinal cord injury victims with ar...

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The "fire" that the father passes on to his son to keep burning surely can be said to refer to hope in humanity, which is a hope that never dies throughout this excellent novel. ... Thus I think another important message is how love and relationships keep us human and prevent us giving in to our darker, more savage and evil sides. ... But all in all, readers of "The Road" can understand the father and son's journey to survive while still holding some sort of humanity in their hearts, because we all try to be the goodness that we want to see in humanity. For the final question, which is m...

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She will die for it unless he speaks up. ... How I have lived I hardly know But revenge kept me alive; I dared now die, and leave my adversary in being." Victor thinks of how his friends and family are dead and how he lives, and their murderer lives. ... Men and women of America, cheer athletes when their team is down by twenty points, but when a two-year old is dying of a head on collision, we would be just as happy to pull the plug. That is where we are wrong. ...

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"Why are we Catholic and not Christian?... "Mom, how come you don't save my friends?... These religious fanatics that believe anyone who differs in belief should be killed, are to die, or will die with no hope of salvation. ... Millions have suffered and died and continue to daily. ... But I wonder how tolerant the innocent victims of September 11th and our soldiers dying from terrorist acts everyday overseas would be. ...

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One might object and say that after a human dies, he's still human; it's just that he's a dead human. But consider this: if a man/woman were to die, one could say that he/she was a good man/woman, thus implying that he/she is no longer a man/woman. ... Let's assume that all human beings died. ... So how is it that this thing, which is distinct in every possible way, can be known in any useful way? ... How did that happen? ...

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Even if we found the answer to reality, how much would it change our everyday lives? The question that we so longed for the answer to wouldnt even make a mark on how we live our lives and the person who found this answer would have committed his entire life to find this now insignificant answer. ... Personally I am a Christian mostly because I asked myself if I were to die right now I would like to believe in something that would help me in the afterlife. If I died and God asked me why he should let me into heaven being an atheist wouldn't help my case. ... Every religion and science has ...

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This religion teaches you how to deal with the life you are given, and that in the end this will help you become a better person. ... The positive aspects of the after life in our religion is that after you die, you are given seven more lives. ... If you live a good life, then after you die you will receive a life that is totally different from all your other lives. ... The number seven represents how many times you come back as a new person before you are able to proceed to heaven. ... We should never give up hope, we should live our lifes to the fulliest and always stay positive. ...

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Now we see how the duality spreads from Pelayo and Elisenda to the rest of the town... The Angel manages to make it through the winter, by the grace of God no doubt; Pelayo and Elisenda still leave him outside to die. ... "The Angel went dragging himself about here and there like a stray dying man. ... And then we see how Marquez believes religion is tapering off. Through this all we are given the hope, the hope of a patient God....

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Whether their death was caused by greed, selfishness, or just being curious, many people died in The Odyssey. Still, the question of what happens after we die remains. ... Another example of the religious differences is how Ancient Egyptians believed in idol gods which are gods represented in statues. ... Many religions use time and fate as representations of why people die. Ancient Egyptians believed that when a person died, they were hand picked by god and therefore sacrificed. ...

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They don't think of the great power it has or how remarkable it really is. ... The kill hole is for spirits of living creatures to escape from when they die. ... Even more than that she wants us to learn from it the same way so many people have learned from the man who die on it. ... The five suns is one cultures belief about how the world works and how man came in to being and all the obstacles that faced the first men. ... Persephone's journey is another story about how the world works. ...

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The fact that the story is about how a death consumes the lives of the entire town as well as the victim, shows that it is concerned with death in life and asks us to evaluate our own views. ... "For years we couldn't talk about anything else. . .and it was obvious that we weren't doing it from an urge to clear up mysteries but because none of us could go on living without an exact knowledge of the place and the mission assigned to us by fate"(113). ... Many in the town describe her as being a woman half in mourning and the narrator is amazed at how she ends up understanding her own ...

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We all know of Dr. ... Nelleke Jorissen-Dumme, Netherlands vividly recalls her mother Maria's fight with cancer, and how five years ago the sick woman chose the day to end her life. ... For those who have experienced someone dieing through PAS they say it is "a quite beautiful experience" (Richburg 1). ... In today's society we are considering making death as easy as a pill or an injection. ... Whether we"re young or old, black or white, death unfortunately will come to us in some form. ...

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Jeremiah 1:5, the passage talks about god knowing us before we are born so there for we are alive already. ... If God created man with his own hands who are we to create man with our hands. ... (Pg2) How many tries did it take for one success? Why should 277 die so one can live? ... Dolly was not the only one, there where other lambs but they died soon after birth. ...

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Dying is like a calling of God for you they believed. ... They taught that we ought not to be discouraged by the darkness that prevails. We can always expect the fierce opposition and hatred of Satan. Yet we are to observe the sovereignty of God. ... They basically were seeing as God deciding everything and every movement you are making all the way from how u give your lessons to what I am typing right now. ...

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I believe Voltaire is saying how we as humans always try to find answers for life's unanswerable questions. ... How it works? ... I can see why people would turn to religion and why humans made a higher being to tell us how to live and to give us a sort of meaning in life. ... If a person dies every purpose and meaning to that life, is perpetually terminated. ... Hope shatters human capability, and relates to the desperate human chase for purpose and meaning to life, hope allows us to pretend that maybe we wont die, maybe there is existence after death, or lateral to death, or maybe in a ...

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- The chance for dying patients to harvest the organ they need to save their life... So how far are we prepared to go in risking the survival of our entire species? ... How would it feel about itself, knowing that it had been created with particular expectations? Suppose you clone someone to replace a child who died? ... But how will the new child feel? ...

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