If you are sick or ill, it would be very hurt and painful. ... What if you get a terminal disease that cannot be cured, and diagnosed by doctors that you have only few months? ... They are ill, and weak. ... Also in Gill's article, he states that "It is not intrinsically wrong for someone with a terminal disease to kill herself. ... It stating that the patients must be over age 18 or older, the patients must be capable of making and communicating health-care decisions, patients must be suffering from a terminal disease that will lead to death within six months, etc (Barone). ...

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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. ... 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. ... In the case of the terminally ill, that means people have the right to refuse li...

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A lot of suicides are grouped in the rational category because they are committed so the person can be saved from the pain they may be experiencing from a terminal disease. ... So if terminally ill patients are the only ones who have a good rational reason to commit suicide, then where does that leave everyone else? ... The organization advocated active euthanasia, or aiding the death of a hopelessly ill individual."... Assisted suicide is where a patient that is terminally ill comes to a physician or even a friend or family member at times and asks them to help end their life. ... According t...

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An argument against this is that a doctor is playing an active roll in the death of a patient when he takes the patient off of life support. ... It is also a very used practice to give terminally ill patients medication that will ease pain while hastening death it seems that you are assisting in suicide of that patient and some people would say you are killing them. ... They feel that just allowing a patient to die violates his rights. The example they give is if a patient needs an organ transplant one may be passed up so that another patient may get that organ but it is not ok to allow a m...

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