What is more, assisted suicide violates historically accepted codes of medical ethics, which have never sanctioned euthanasia since it is against the Hippocratic oath. ... Euthanasia, which gives the doctor a legal right to kill, makes the physician the most dangerous man in the state. ... Yet, giving the doctor the legal right to end somebody's life is a morally dangerous undertaking, which should be opposed. ...

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It has allowed the public to support the idea of having the right-to-die, favoring possible physician assisted suicide when appropriate and has led to patient legal rights including the ability, through medical directives, to refuses any further rather life-saving techniques, such as do not resuscitate directives, that had typically been used in the past to prolong patients' lives. ... He truly believed that ethics and death comes hand-in-hand in relieving the suffering of those who need compassion the most. ...

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Statistics estimate that 1,000 to 7,000 individuals are put to death by euthanasia annually in the Netherlands, which is one of the few places where euthanasia is legal. ... The law permits patients or their surrogates to withhold or withdraw unwanted medical treatment even if that increases the likelihood that the patient will die, which means neither the law nor medical ethics requires that everything be done to keep a person alive. ...

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The debate of the legalization of Euthanasia hangs heavily on the ethics of the passing of life. ... "[Euthanasia] should be universally available, legal, safe, painless, and suitable for the gentle parting in one's own home with loved ones present" (Barbara Coombs-Lee). ... The incurability of a disease should constitute an option for the patient to end their own life legally and comfortably. ... " (Salvation Army Positional Statement) However, this will become a large burden on the family and proxy decision makers of the patient but similar decisions are already being ma...

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If assisted suicide were legal, people would not have to go to extremes or take brutal measures to end their suffering. ... The outcome of these legal struggles is hard to predict, but the cause has picked up momentum since the story of a cancer patient, Brittany Maynard, went viral. There is opposition coming from people with concerns regarding doctor's ethics, as well as religious groups and disability activists who believe that assisted suicide suggests that the lives of disabled, old, and ill individuals are not worth living. ... Because assisted suicide is not legal in California, Ca...

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The Death with Dignity Act empowers physicians with the legal ability to provide aid in dying (the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications) to the patient; however, the act specifically prohibits euthanasia, (where anyone other than the patient directly administers the prescribed medication to terminate life). ... This type of euthanasia is commonly practiced in the United States legally, and remains the center of many bioethical debates (Encyclopedia of Bioethics 564)...

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One such opinion is that of Ezekiel Emanuel, ethics chief of the National Institutes of Health, who said - regarding researchers who have failed to prove that pain is the essential reason for the terminally ill to use euthanasia - "To the contrary, all such studies have documented that physical pain plays a very small role in motivating patients" interest in or requests for euthanasia. ... Knowing this is it morally, ethically, or legally permissible for us to take their requests for death at face value? ... Daniel Callahan, president of the Hastings Center, an organization assisting termina...

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And it is a widely debated issue due to its involvement with moral and religious beliefs about who should have ultimate control over human life, medical practitioners and their ethics, and constitutional laws regarding the taking of one's life. ... As far as the law is concerned, those who are pro-assisted suicide not only feel that it should be officially made legal, but that it would be wrong to ban it, claiming that "prohibition of physician-assisted suicide handcuffs doctors who want to show compassion to patients whose bodies are irreversibly falling apart despite excellent medical...

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As mentioned previously according to Kant's ethics there are only two options a human can follow and that is right or wrong however in a utilitarian perspective there are only two options a human can choose from which are happiness or sadness. ... People can choose to drink or smoke because they have a freedom of choice on consumption (legal substances) and the society respects one another for individuals to make a responsible choice for them. ...

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