The three central aims of hospices are: • To relieve patients pain. • To enable patients and families to face up to death. ... A hospice offers care to both the patient and their family at the most difficult stages in their lives. ... Many people argue that a person who is terminally ill may could make miraculous recovery - something which has happened in the past. ... Medical advances in recent years have made it possible to keep terminally ill people alive for an extended period of time, without any hope of improvement or recovery. ...

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Some people would argue that euthanasia should be illegal since no one can be one hundred percent sure a patient is in pain if they are in a coma or are unable to communicate. However, doctors do not mercy kill unless they are sure the patient is in pain. ... These laws should ensure only the patient is the one who can decide if they want to be put to death, rather than the children, wife, etc. ... Euthanasia or mercy killing allows people who are in severe pain to be put to rest and it is also a choice the patient should be able to make. Having said this, euthanas...

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The help has come in the form of a "living will," a legal statute giving hospital patients the right to decide whether they want to be put on ventilators if certain circumstances succumb the patient. ... Surprisingly though, there are doctors in the world such as Doctor Kavorkian who admit to helping terminable patients on a personal level commit suicide. These doctors have supposedly been helping patients die before "living wills" were even a glimmer in some apathetic politician's eye. ... The right to die issue lasted this way until some people made headlines for helping "murder" their ...

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The help has come in the form of a "living will," a legal statute giving hospital patients the right to decide whether they want to be put on ventilators if certain circumstances succumb the patient. ... Surprisingly though, there are doctors in the world such as Doctor Kavorkian who admit to helping terminable patients on a personal level commit suicide. These doctors have supposedly been helping patients die before "living wills" were even a glimmer in some apathetic politician's eye. ... The right to die issue lasted this way until some people made headlines for helping "murder" their ...

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I feel that late abortion should be justified only if a woman becomes ill after trying to carry her baby out to term. ... We do have machines that doctors can hook patients up with to help prolong life. In some situations they might not find it necessary to hook a patient up to the machine but it is still different than if you support euthanasia. ... Then again I can also agree with the Netherlands, because if a patients request to be put to sleep then why go against their will. ... In every country except South Africa the patients are not responsible for the cost of treatments. ...

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This is the first time the Court has ever held that physicians can be prohibited from using a medical procedure deemed necessary by the physician to benefit the patient's health'] ("Gonzales v. ...

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Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. If a woman chooses to prematurely end her child, the child can't do anything about his or her life being taken away from them. Their entire future is annihilated. A mother slaughters her unborn child, yet...

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Abortion: Life or Death, Who chooses? During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most debatable subject of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. Abortion poses a moral, social and med...

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