Patients have relied on the wisdom of their doctors for centuries so it is a natural dependency that the patient should believe it when their physician tells them they have no other recourse from a terminal illness but death. ... If a person has a terminal illness and is suffering unmanageable pain then this is just part of God's divine plan. ... There are many terminally ill patients who cannot afford health insurance, therefore they seek death as an alternative to expensive health care. Even if health insurance is being used by the terminally ill patient, the health insurance profess...

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For certain circumstances such as, patients suffering from terminal illness or injuries, granting the usage of euthanasia in addition to the doctors' normal practice is an action that is more morally justified and more beneficial to the patients themselves and therefore should be legalized in all states. ... 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 patients can be sure that the doctor will not let them suffer unnecessarily alone. ... He argues t...

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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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Before he died, he wrote movingly of his experiences with another terminal patient. ... In doing so the patient is choosing for himself. ... This attitude would then carry over to their dealings with patients less seriously ill. ... Having new cures that are successful will reduce the number of patients wanting to die. ... Terminally ill patients are people who will never attain a personal existence, never experience life as a net value, and/or never achieve a minimal level of independence. ...

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He is, instead, innocently complying with a request from a terminally ill person to end his pain. ... Therefore, physician-assisted suicides increase dignity in death, and can be legally consented to by both the ill and the ill's family members. ... For example, the dying patient must ask on more than one occasion for a physician to help them die. ... The physician actually obtains informed consent from the patient. ... I suggest that the decision must be up to the patient. ...

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