Does a person have the right to take his or her own life due to a terminal illness or a mental incabiliity they face? ... On the opposing side stands more of the liberal thinkers or those who are directly effected by terminal illness'. It is predicted that over 25,000 Terminally ill Americans will turn to euthanasia just in the year 2003. ... For some faith groups, such as the Roman Catholics, "human suffering can have a positive value for the terminally ill and the caregivers"."... People who are terminally ill believe that they have the right to end their lives when they want. ...

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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. ... 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 this, there shouldn't be. ...

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Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill people ask their doctor, friend or relative, to put them to death. ... Negative euthanasia is defined as the withholding of life preserving procedures and treatments that would prolong the life of one who is incurably and terminally ill and couldn't survive without them. ... 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 right to release themselves from pain, they commit the greatest crime? ... In the case of the terminal...

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Some of the pain caused by terminal illness cannot be controlled, even with the strongest of drugs and best of care. ... Many people argue that a person who is terminally ill may could make miraculous recovery - something which has happened in the past. Most terminally ill people whose pain and suffering is relieved by the excellent care, given by hospices, hospitals and doctors do not need to make any decisions about euthanasia. ... 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 reco...

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"Humans have a natural inclination to continue life (Baird, 98)." Opponents believe that euthanasia acts against nature. Like animals, humans fight for survival. It is our goal to protect ourselves from harm and do whatever possible to stay alive. When euthanasia is implicated, it goes against our c...

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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. ...

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Euthanasia Imagine your mother is diagnosed with cancer. She lies in a hospital bed all day. She is unable to communicate with the world. The medication to stop her pain is not strong enough. The doctors only give her three months to live. What would you do? Would you let her lie i...

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Playing the Role of God Euthanasia is a Greek term meaning "good death." It is defined as the act of killing someone painlessly. Euthanasia is also known as mercy killing, and has become one of the most important public policy debates in the United States today. Mercy killing is now legal in only ...

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Throughout life one comes to realize that playing the role of God has horrible results. Victor Frankenstein is a young man in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and plays the role of God throughout the entire book. Victor had a relatively good childhood, which can cause one to wonder why he became th...

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Some parents of terminally ill children have requested that their children be cloned. To me, cloning a terminally ill child would be a strange thing indeed. Although the cloned child would be an identical twin to the ill one, it would be a totally separate human being. ...

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Society is changing all day, every day. "Great thoughts speak only to a thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all humankind." If a person has a life changing idea and does nothing with it, it is useless, but if that person were to take that idea and do something with it, it might just change l...

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