Recent debates over active euthanasia, "killing" a terminally ill patient, in Holland, has risen the question whether euthanasia is immoral or a simple human right. ... This, of cause, leads to the ultimatum, that it is the patients own choice. ... From the patients point of view, a lot of arguments talk in favor of euthanasia. ... It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. ... My opinion is, that anyone who is terminally ill, should have the choice, but to all rules there are exceptions, and to something as serious as t...

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When euthanasia is implicated, it goes against our concept for survival -In many cases a patient recovers with no explanation. ... If the patient is put to death then they have lost their right to recovery and life -In the medical profession, doctors are committed to saving lives (Baird, 100). ... It must be considered whether the patient is feeling depressed and that is why they want to die, or if it is to relieve the pain. ... Support's of euthanasia might think that killing a terminally ill that want's to end this life would benefit the nation by decrease of unnecessary me...

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They also claim that euthanasia would lead to devaluation of human life, because it would force medical professionals and patients" families to judge the worth of other lives. However, isn't forcing hopelessly ill patients to continue their suffering and total dependence on others a devaluation of human life? ... Terminally ill patients like Martha eventually die, and most of the time it is a painful death. In many cases, it would be honorable to human life to respect these patients" wishes and give them a choice to end their torment by euthanasia. ...

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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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Health care costs can also play a huge part in patients desiring euthanasia. These costs are on the rise, and many terminally ill patients do not want to burden their loved ones with thousands of dollars in medical costs. This burden becomes even greater when the expenses will lead only to the death of the patient. Many believe that legal euthanasia would allow patients to die peacefully while surrounded by their family and friends. ... If a patient desires to die, who is to tell him or her that death is not an option? ...

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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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Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill people ask their doctor, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. ... The cost of a dose of barbiturates and curare and the few hours in a hospital bed that it takes them to act is minute compared to the massive bills incurred by many patients in the last weeks and months of their lives. ... Ironically, those who deny the terminally ill this right do so out of a sense of high morality. Don't they see that in denying the gravely ill and suffering the r...

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He was killing people who were not terminally ill; in fact only seventeen of his patients were terminally ill. ... These patients all went to the wrong man, and did not have a chance to live a second life, as little Kayla did have. ...

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Death is fearless, beautiful and free. This is how society should think of death. However, the fear of death is a prominent part of society today. It has almost become mysterious to some. Society is for the most part afraid of death because it is an unknown. Most individual's retreat from what ...

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The Make-A-Wish foundation helps terminally ill patients by giving them one wish, any wish of something that they always have wanted or dreamed of. For example, the patient may want to meet their favorite celebrity, or have a party at Disney World. ...

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Rieux, his wife is very ill and as a doctor and her husband he wanted to cure her, but this was not possible and he felt guilty and useless. ... Rieux found his patient leaning over the edge of the bed, one hand pressed against his belly and the other to his neck, vomiting pinkish bile into a slop-pail... ...

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