For those of you who are not exactly sure euthanasia is the practise of painlessly ending the life of a person who has an incurable disease or handicap. ... It is showed that 82% of British people agree with doctors helping patients to die if they have a disease etc. which cannot be cured. ... Another pole conducted by the media recorded huge majorities supporting legalised passive euthanasia for the incurably ill. ... Annie Lindsell, a campaigner for euthanasia and suffering from Motor Neurone Disease said before she died...

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They allowed suicide if someone was in great pain or in an incurable disease. ... This term is usually used in cases on incurable and painful disease. ... Diseases of the nervous system all too often lead to crippling paralysis or inability to walk, to severe headaches to blindness and to the misery of incontinence and bedsores. ... Individuals against euthanasia have a strong belief that nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether it is an old man, or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying. ... Diseased individuals prefer...

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The first question that was said was: "When a person has an incurable disease that is immediately life threatening and causes that person to experience great suffering, do you, or do you not think that competent doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life through mercy killing, if the patient has made a formal request in writing?" ... The second question was about non-immediate life threatening cases: "When a person has an incurable disease that is not immediately life-threatening but causes that person to experien...

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Introduction Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. ... Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill people ask their doctor, friend or relative, to put them to death. ... Today it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease. ... If a person suffers from a disease that deprives him or her of all memory and makes him or her a helpless lump of flesh that may live on for years. ... The treatment's worse than the disease. ...

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According to the World Book Encyclopedia, euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases. ... Usually the incurably ill people ask their physician or relative to put them to death. ... No one else knows and can comprehend the pain that the incurable face. ... But what most doctors do not realize is you should treat the patient, not the disease. ... So the question is not if the disease is cured or treated but if the patient is content and treated. ...

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What if you get a terminal disease that cannot be cured, and diagnosed by doctors that you have only few months? ... Many incurable patients have been tortured and suffering from excruciating pain and many of them want to end their tough lives. ... Through the pain and diseases, they have lost too many things. ... Also in Gill's article, he states that "It is not intrinsically wrong for someone with a terminal disease to kill herself. Also, he says it is not intrinsically wrong for physicians to assist someone with a terminal disease who has reasonable grounds for wanting to kill her...

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Until now, euthanasia is not having the same point by the groves of academe, but to be sure just fitting for a patient who is getting incurable diseases or at death's door. In medical situation, a disease will let a patient feel painful. ... As an illustration, if one of your relations has got a serious disease and nearly to be on the danger list. ... A patient has got painful during the disease, it's really awful and let him/her feel depress. ... He knows his disease costs lots of money and his children time, so he decides to end of his life. ...

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Either way, the actual definition of euthanasia is, "The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment." ... Euthanasia is an easy way out for people struggling from diseases or incurable condition. ...

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He took his belief to action as he assisted the suicide process of a patient, who was suffering from Alzheimer; having exhausted any means of cure; willing to end her life before she met the late stage of the disease (Kevorkian). ... Often the initial shock of the diagnosis and the fear of the disease process may be overwhelming. ... However, when the patient is no longer willing to live so he or she doesn't have to endure the pain from an incurable disease any more, granting his or her wish to die is in a way actually saving his or her life from pain and suffering. ...

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For my RE project I have chosen Euthanasia to explain to you, the meaning of Euthanasia is "Also called "mercy killing". The act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable disease, a painful, disease...

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Most people who are for euthanasia have seen family members suffer from fatal diseases and think it is wrong to watch a loved one suffer. ... These essays stated that if a patient is suffering from an incurable, painful illness, they should be able to request that their lives be ended, and that a doctor be legally able to assist them in their dying. ... One of the reasons I feel very strongly about legalizing euthanasia is that I had to watch my Nana suffer form a horrible disease, Alzheimer's disease. ... Instead she had to suffer with the last stage of the disease for about 4 years,...

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Euthanasia or better known as mercy killing, is a practice of ending a life so as to release an individual life from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. This term is sometimes used generally to refer to an easy or painless death. Voluntary Euthanasia involves a request by the dying ...

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Many people suffering from deadly diseases such as AIDS, and some cancers volunteer to die rather than take the pain. ... When people have an incurable and debilitating illness, extreme suffering, and lose of personal dignity, that is when mercy death is recommendable because it would reduce immediately the pain of the patient. ... For instance, people with incurable diseases or extremely ill patients must go to court, and then the court will decide if they are allowed to use assisted suicide. ...

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The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language defines 'euthanasia' as: "the deliberate painless killing of persons who suffer from a painful and incurable disease or condition, or who are aged and helpless". ... Active euthanasia may well precede the normal progression of a disease. ... The disease had progressed too far for medical intervention. ...

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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. ... The medical experience has taught that the incurable man may ask for his end under the state of unbearable suffering, but when his pains shrink or stop, life reappears and the appeal is now for its preservation and not for its ending. ...

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The Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary diseases was applied to the sterilization of Gypsies. ... The second group was the "incurable lunatics", in other words, those in mental institutions, because of the fact that they were too expensive to take care of. ... Especially those who suffered from such diseases as Huntington's, Chorea, paralysis, epilepsy, and schizophrenia, just to name a few. ...

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Euthanasia became an important topic among many doctors and many people who were suffering from diseases like cancer, AIDS, etc. ... Jane was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. ... Alzheimer disease is incurable. ... On the other hand, a symptom such as depression that may be caused by a disease is not a reason for euthanasia. ... When a patient suffers from a disease, the patient may become to ill to rationalize. ...

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The Right to Die: The Legalization of Euthanasia Christiaan Barnard, a South African cardiac surgeon, once said, "I have never seen any nobility in a patient's thrashing around all night in a sweat-soaked bed, trying to escape from the pain that torments him day and night" (Walker 18). Should a...

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What makes the "right to die" issue stand out from the others is the fact that death in this instance is not being feared or run away from, but welcomed and gladly received by people with terminable or incurable diseases who are suffering everywhere Most understandably, little measure if any has been taken to help these poor ailing people. ...

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What makes the "right to die" issue stand out from the others is the fact that death in this instance is not being feared or run away from, but welcomed and gladly received by people with terminable or incurable diseases who are suffering everywhere Most understandably, little measure if any has been taken to help these poor ailing people. ...

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The Right to Die Euthanasia is defined as the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. ... It is important for doctors to not only cure diseases, but to also produce a better quality of life. ...

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This is a rational and planned "self-deliverance" from a painful and hopeless disease which would eventually end in death. ... There must be extensive testing done to be positive that this individual does indeed have a terminal illness and that nothing can be done to cure or slow down the disease. And there shouldn't be talk of euthanasia just because an individual has a terminal disease, there must be so much suffering that the fight for life is hopeless and the mental and physical agony is unbearable and death is the only way to relieve the pain. ... Right-to-die is advocatin...

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