If the family is not prepared, they cannot ask the ill member to hold on for them. ... The answer is people who are euthanized are terminally ill or in such discomfort their quality of life has gone down to a degree not worth living. ... Those who are terminally ill know that their life will not get any better. ... They are keeping the patient alive when God perhaps would have them dead. ... Nineteen percent of these doctors took active steps that brought about the death of a patient. ...

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If living persons become so ill that they cannot tolerate the pain they have a "right to die" to an escape from torment. ... Simmons, 112) There is still a question involved in the contemporary debates about euthanasia which is posed by a case such as the terminally ill who are dying. ... People also believe that patients' wishes should be respected, but that seems not always best for the patients. ... The reason: They are suffering 'needlessly'; their lives are 'useless'; they are terminally ill, or comatose, or have nothing to live for.' Of course, the...

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In most places Euthanasia is illegal, because they cannot be sure if the patient really want's it. ... That is why as long as there are terminally ill people, euthanasia should be legal. ... In order to perform euthanasia, the patient must sign a will saying he, of his own free will, has specifically asked to be euthanised. ... Of you were terminally ill and had bone cancer for example, you might choose euthanasia occur dying a very painful death. ... At hospitals owned or managed by religious groups euthanasia is forbidden and most doctors refuse to become involved are furthe...

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The terminally ill patient/loved one should be made as comfortable as possible. ... Hospice is beneficial to both the ill person and their loved ones. ... If this is the case, it is possible the ill person will have more difficulty dying in a dignified way. ... Mutual Pretense: most common-patients and family were both aware of the impending death but to protect each other would pretend patient would recover. 4. ... The patient uses denial as a defense mechanism. ...

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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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This includes taking the patient off their support system, or respirator. ... They do, however, accept two forms of eu thantos: caring for dying patients, and letting terminally ill persons die. ... Roman Catholics permit terminally ill patients to die by forgoing life-sustaining measures. ... In many cases a patient recovers with no explanation. ... The concern about following a patient's request lies on their psychological state. ...

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The patient cannot help but lay there, helplessly, until total body failure. ... Which option sounds more just, the option of a person's life being taken form them based on the decision of someone else, or the option of a terminally ill person choosing to die based on one's own decision. ... Terminal disease is managed so patients can live comfortably until they die. ... No one person can fully meet the needs of the dying patient, instead, a multidisciplinary team must be available to deal with any needs the patient or family may have. The patient should be treated as a person, n...

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A lot of ill patients today rely on it to live. ... The ill patients loved ones today have difficulty deciding whether they would like to take their loved ones off life support or keeping them on. ... The hospital is full of other patients who seek the doctor's attention, so checking up on these patients is just wasting their time when they could be helping other patients. ... Keeping a brain dead patient alive is just pointless. ... Keeping a brain dead patient also is very inhumane. ...

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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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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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A patient with a stroke may be conscious but helpless. ... If a patient is in deep agony, the doctor must allow the patient to die in a peaceful way. The patient himself should be given the right to end his life legally. The patient known better whether his or her life is tolerable or now. ... "Health Mood swings 'create euthanasia danger'" " Research showing that terminally-ill cancer patients can long for death one day, but cling to life the next has illustrated the potential risks of legalizing euthanasia, say the authors. ...

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To die,""to sleep; " To sleep: perchance to dream: "ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would these...

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