Within the context of the doctor-patient relationship, a prescription for medication will allow the individual to end all pain. No uniform ruling exists on the law books regarding physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. ... Kevorkian when was acting out of compassion for his terminally ill patients. ... Should we not show compassion and let the terminally ill die with dignity? ... However, physicians are not allowed to provide prescription medication to facilitate the death of a patient. ...

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According to their law, a patient must be seriously ill, if not terminal, to ask for help with death. ... Also, the law applies to terminally ill children. ... It is widely believed that there are only two options facing the terminally ill; they either die slowly and painfully or they receive euthanasia. ... This is mainly because seriously ill patients are vulnerable. ... Kevorkian has treated and assisted in their death, for the most part, were not terminally ill. ...

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Many people oppose it, because they feel it is immoral and or unjust, but others believe that it is a humane thing to do, if a patient is terminally ill and is suffering. ... It was devised so that the patient themselves could pull the trigger. ... This would put the patient into a deep coma. ... The patient would die of a heart attack while asleep. ... All of his patients were either terminally ill or were under such agony and pain that they could not bear to live out the rest of their life. ...

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These are just a few of several terminally ill diseases where someone who has been diagnosed might seek out "Physician Assisted Suicide". ... The law, approved by voters in 1994 and 1997, allows the terminally ill to request a lethal dose of drugs if two doctors confirm they have less than six months to live, and the patients are mentally competent to make the request. The patients must take the fatal dose by themselves. ... Rasmussen has acknowledged helping two patients die in the last year. ... Rasmussen said at least 12 of his terminally ill patients have asked for lethal prescriptions. ...

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His aim was to help the hopeless patients who are terminally ill or suffering from debilitating pain to commit suicide effortlessly. ... The patient's wish - see, that's not my wish. ... He says you are the servant of the patient. ... So I've got to do what the patient requires. ... The government should not have the right to a terminally ill person's life. ...

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The doctor prescribed a lethal amount of barbiturates to longtime patient at the patient's request. ... Euthanasia is humane because, as stats indicate, it would end suffering of terminally ill, not bring flow of meaningless deaths by abusive doctors. When a patient suffers from a disease, the patient may become to ill to rationalize. ... In other words, the patient is sane. ... If legalization of euthanasia is accepted the terminally ill will die with peacefully and with dignity. ...

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If I were terminally ill, would I want to be euthanized so that I would not suffer anymore? ... Is it more unethical to make a terminally ill person suffer, or is it more unethical to go through the process of euthanasia? ... Is it unethical for a doctor to purposely take a life even though the patient has give their consent? ... Is the patient causing an emotional and financial burden on their caregiver and/or family by not going through with the process? ... Also, what if the terminally ill patient is suffering from dementia or another illness on top of the disease they are suffering from, w...

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In passive euthanasia, by withholding intravenous feedings, medications, surgery, a pacemaker, or a respirator, the doctor can let the patient die of the underlying disease. ... Starting with the moral analysis of the patient who desires to go through euthanasia, we could say that his or her wish has some logical arguments. ... According to an American doctor (Kass, 1991), "killing patients - even those who ask for death- violates the inner meaning of the art of healing". ... The surgeries, life support, drugs, doctor's fees and all the other expenses of a terminally ill patient are stag...

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Many believe that the first and foremost question is the age of the terminally ill, a minor is not mature enough to make a decision as significant as this one. ... The doctor obviously cannot prohibit the patient from killing himself or herself but they can attempt to dissuade the patient. Rational suicide cannot be committed without the patient having made a Will. ... Some cases of assisted suicide go undetected by the doctors of the patients. ... The United Church of Christ (Congregational), the Unitarian Church, and the Methodist Church on the West Coast of America all officiall...

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When people are sick, especially when they are terminally ill, they may at times want to die. ... Therefore, the patients might not be choosing to die under clear thinking. ... The pressure on those patients becomes lighter when they know they won't have to go on suffering. ... Although euthanasia takes away the suffering from the patient, it does take away a person's life. ... The patients can be sure that the doctor will not let them suffer unnecessarily alone. ...

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Doctor Joseph Evers says, "To say that a patient on a ventilator, declared brain dead and is certain to die, is no longer a person, is to deny reality. ... As a physician, that person is obligated to do all that is in his power for the best interest of the patient. ... As stated also in the Associated Press Nader said he was concerned that the law was targeting terminally ill patients who suffer from depression or worry about being a financial burden to their relatives. ... An advance directive contains instructions regarding medical treatment requested by the patient, to guide health care ...

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In 1990, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that patients have a right to passive euthanasia if they have clearly made their wishes known. ... A living will is a legal document addressed to a patients family and health care providers stating what type of treatment the patient wishes or does not wish to receive if he becomes terminally ill, unconscious, or permanently comatose (Mc Graw-Hill). ... Dr.Kevorkian used "bully pulpit" to strongly advocate for allowing patients the right to decide when they no longer wished to live. . ... He has admitted to extending help to 130 patients up ...

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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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