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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