The art of cryonics is the process of placing the body of a recently deceased person in a deep freeze, preserving the body from decomposition, and lies on the shaky premises that someday in the future with new developments in medicine the person can be brought back to life. Not only are results not guaranteed, the cost of this procedure can be quite a deterrent; freezing the entire body starts at a lofty $80,000 according to the Milwaukee Journal "so many settle by just freezing the head at a more affordable $30,000 (price quotes are from 1985 and have grown considerably since then). In...

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Over the years a good deal of serious research is being conducted into reincarnation, a growing number of highly credentialed researchers have compiled an impressive body of evidence on the subject. ... He interviewed children between the ages of two and four who started talking about their "other life". ... Another interesting discovery that resulted as the result of extensive research by Dr Stevenson is the findings that, a person's previous incarnation can apparently affect the very shape and structure of their current physical body. ... Over the years a great deal of serious research ...

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This type of euthanasia allows the patient's body to take a natural cause. ... Also that killing ourselves just for the reason being that our body is not what it used to be is wrong. ... This would decrease the trust in medical professionals whose job it is to cure people and take them out of distress and people would start to give up on themselves before it is necessary, if even. This refers back to Kant's argument in regards to his universality maxim, if one person decides that euthanasia is the best option for them, instead of being patient and letting their bodies hope, how can b...

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The delusion is we don't own our own bodies and lives. ... I quite agree with Siebold's quote, elected officials from all the states refusing to legalize the issue, need to change their biased perspective on physician-assisted suicide and start implementing the laws which will allow individuals the right to do with their dying bodies whatever they want after all they are not causing harm to anyone not even themselves. ...

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This focus on and capacity for learning has increased exponentially with the increase and development of human intellect and the accumulated body of knowledge. ... As in the workplace, older adults have also started playing a more active part in the basic family structure. ...

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So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor chooses to aid a patient in the process of killing himself or herself. This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the d...

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Elderly suicide is becoming a major problem in today's society. A case study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January of 1996, proposed that the suicide rates among people age 65 and older has increased since 1980 (Devons, 1996). A study conducted in 1991 showed the su...

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" The audience is drawn aback and is instantly starting to read the article with a softened heart as they sympathize towards the young woman dying of cancer who is in support of rejecting the culture of suicide. In the body of the article, Lopez continues to quote Tippett, allowing the audience to stay with her and continue to feel sympathy toward Tippett. ...

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Recent studies have begun to see the Homeric epics in the light of other epic traditions, notably epics from Mesopotamia, and have begun to look at striking similarities. There is a supposed lineage that can be seen connecting the Homeric epics most directly with the world of Akkadian epics (Gresseth 2). The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. The epic of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, and the Iliad, with its focus on the menis of Achilles, provide a look at heroic life and its relations...

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