Paternalistic lies are not only told to children, but the terminally ill as well. ... It is common to tell lies to the terminally ill with the intent to help them. ... It has always been easy to lie to the terminally ill. ... ( Bok 233-234) I believe that lying to terminally ill patients is wrong. ... I am sure that the doctors who are lying to these patients "for their own good" would want the courtesy of being told the truth if they were in the terminally ill patient's shoes. ...

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Washington stopped a law that was in action for 140 years in which the judge stated the patients who were competent and terminally ill have the right to a doctor's help in death. ... Patients are incapable of thought, memory, and voluntary action. However, patients can breathe because the brainstem is the last thing to die. ... Legal Issues Regarding Euthanasia Three legal means are used to express an individual's desire to withdraw or withhold treatment if he or she were to become incompetent or terminally ill. ... The doctors stated they encountered terminally ill patients asking...

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If a person with a terminal illness is suffering unbearable pain and wishes to end his or her life, is it wrong to help? ... The self-determination process permits a patient with a terminal illness to die in a dignified manner, it also prevents extended suffering from a horrible pain, and serves to psychologically relieve for the mind of the individual, who knows that the option of a painless death is available. ... The Oregon Death with Dignity Act allows terminally ill Oregon residents to obtain from their physicians and use prescriptions for self-administered, lethal medications. ... For ...

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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. ... Burnell (1993), comes from the need of the patient to avoid or end the unbearable pain during a terminal illness, to have a "better" quality of life, or to prevent unnecessary financial burden on his family. ... According to an American doctor (Kass, 1991), "killing p...

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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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This is defined as the act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition. ... So, then, why do people still permit this to go on, why has it become an option for terminally ill patients? ... How soon before a person who has no terminal illness, desires to be assisted in taking their own life? ... Another key reason is that the patients are clinically depressed. In a study done, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who requested assisted suicide, all had also been diagnosed with clinical depression (Euthanasia.com). ...

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In some high functioning older adults, the physiological effects of normal aging show little to no ill effect on the brain function, as Halpren (2008) indicates. ... These researchers created in vitro models of genetic and sporadic forms of Alzheimer's disease, using pluripotent stem cells specifically from patients who suffered from this specific neurodegenerative disorder. ... To create these neurons, the researchers extracted fibroblasts (skin cells) of two patients with sporadic Alzheimer's, two people with familial Alzheimer's and two people with no known neurological con...

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Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. If a woman chooses to prematurely end her child, the child can't do anything about his or her life being taken away from them. Their entire future is annihilated. A mother slaughters her unborn child, yet...

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