Euthanasia in America Recent proposals to legalize Euthanasia in the United States have raised the question of whether or not physicians should be granted the power to intentionally end the lives of their patients. ... Allowing physician-assisted suicide will change the public's view on suicide entirely. ... 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. ... Another flaw of Euthanasia lies in th...

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When the Oregon physician-assisted suicide statute became law, nurses opposed to suicide on moral grounds were concerned about their ability to exercise their professional autonomy without abandoning their patient. ... The association's White Paper on Assisted Suicide provides guidelines for ethically withdrawing from a case without abandoning the patient for nurses who do not want to be involved, as well as guidelines for nurses willing to care for the patient who is committing physician-assisted suicide.12 Although the principle of respect for autonomy is of major importance, other ...

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Advances in medical technology have done a great deal to produce miraculous cures and recoveries. In some circumstances however, these advances have created problems for the elderly. More aggressive technology approaches are used to extend the life of the elderly. On the whole the elderly, as well a...

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