But others are condemned to continuing severe suffering by any legal system that confers no legal right to physician assisted suicide. ... (Wellman, Carl "Preface to 'Should Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?... Presently there are only five states where physician assisted suicide is legal. ... In the state of Oregon the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has proven to be a success. ... Many other states and countries look upon the success of Oregon as a model for implementing their own physician-assisted suicide law. ...

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What is physician-assisted suicide? ... Some people, however, are opposed to legalizing physician-assisted suicide. One might object that legalizing physician-assisted suicide would be going against the tradition of medicine. ... As I have shown in this essay, nothing bad can come out of allowing physician-assisted suicide to be done. ... Therefore, although it has been argued that legalizing doctor-assisted suicide violates the tradition of medicine, it is suggested that the legalization of physician-assisted suicide will greatly improve the current medical environment for dying patients. ...

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The never-ending debate for the legalization of assisted suicide is quite interesting in the sense that its morality is questionable according to certain groups of individuals of the population. ... Whether the practice of assisted suicide should be legalized or not is an issue that is well known by the Canadian citizens. ... Nadeau dies by the medical practice of assisted suicide or lives through a lot of pain and body deterioration knowing that there is no cure to eventually pass away on his hospital bed? ... I cannot believe that the Canadian population has any sort of power to decide wheth...

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The first argument for those in favor of phyisican-assisted suicide is that of equal protection. ... The second argument in favor of physician-assisted suicide is that of due process. ... Physician-assisted suicide should be protected under the law. ... Laws banning physician-assisted suicide have little or no effect in this area. ... Laws banning physician-assisted suicide do so. ...

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The Case for Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legalized? ... In answer to this question, proponents of physician-assisted suicide, most notably, Dr. ... Currently, thirty-one states have criminalized explicitly the act of assisted suicide . ... For example, in at least three of the assisted suicides which Dr. ... Since, suicide is not a homicide, then an assisted suicide cannot be deemed a homicide. ...

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Allowing physician-assisted suicide will change the public's view on suicide entirely. Society will begin to look at suicide as a good rather than bad, humane rather than inhumane, legal rather than illegal. It will also put doctors in a cost-interest position which will cause them to ask themselves -why spend so much money in treatment and other life-sustaining technologies when resorting to physician-assisted suicide would be much cheaper. ... Many times the doctor might not pursue treatment so valiantly and look towards physician-assisted suicide as an alternative. Euthanasia u...

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