In some sad cases, even if there is the option of treatment, the patient's body may be so over-taken by their disease that it would be of no help. ... Those that are pro-euthanasia only want for the sick and the dying to be put at ease. They feel that no human should have to live life in such a state that they are humiliated and undignified at how little they can do for themselves because of their illness. ... One suggestion called comfort care encourages doctors to prescribe their dying patients with as many prescription pain-relievers necessary to ease their suffering, even though the p...

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Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor supplies the patient with the proper information, procedure, and or tools that allow the patient, themselves, to terminate their own lives with ease. ... A person's life belongs to that person only and if for whatever reason that person no longer has the desire to live, it should be that person's own decision whether or not to continue or to end their own life. Unless you are in or have been in a position where the pain or suffering is enough for you to even consider ending your own life or if there is no hope of getting a better quality of...

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Basing arguments on the foundations of the classical writers such as Aristotle no longer produced valid views, as such work supported the belief of witchcraft because these writers had not the knowledge now known in modern times. ... However the system of the Poor Law meant that poor now had a system of support to turn to, and therefore people no longer feared the curse of bewitchment if they turned away the poor. ... Towards the year 1700 society no longer found the need to blame troubles on witches as now there were not as many, and therefore the need to hunt for witches was no longer necess...

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This is a question, which has occupied many people in a variety of fields for quite a long time. ... This pithy comment is indeed a good summation up Marx's straightforward appraisal of religion, which he said "eased pain even as it created fantasies" for those masses of oppressed workers suffering at the hands of a powerful few (141)*. ... Marx imagined primeval communist societies in which all resources were owned jointly by the members of the community, a social organisation to which he longed for a putative return. ... In such a system, goods achieved or manufactured by the labour of...

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As religion gave people something to focus on other than where there next meal would be coming from, their minds were set at ease with the understanding that there would be a better life for them when Death finally came for them. ... A child who's incredibly dangerous infancy lasted longer than one year grew up learning about their God and ways of their faith. ... The Black Plague killed an estimated 25 million people in no more than a couple years. ... Many also claim that the crusades killed thousands of men who would have lived much longer lives without the religious influence that ...

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It is seen as no longer performing the function of determining one's "ultimate destiny" because this destiny can now be explained more easily by science. ... Indeed, we need go no further than the title of Kant's most important book on religion, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, to see that he assumes right from the start that religion can and ought to be viewed only within a narrow set of rational limits. ... The role of religion for Marx then is to quench the emotional needs and distresses of the economically oppressed: "Through it, the pain people suffer in a world of ...

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Douglass comments that: "Another advantage I gained in my new master was, he made no pretensions to, or profession of, religion; and this, in my opinion, was truly a great advantage. ... Douglass feels as if he can no longer be spiritually battered by the oppression of others. ... Douglass writes: "What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference- so wid...

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Called by critics the "enemy of all religion," Jefferson attempted to reconcile Christianity with the Enlightenment.17 Frank Lambert rightly concluded that though the "free market of religion represented freedom from religion, others wanted a more positive arrangement, guaranteeing freedom of religion."18 The freedom from religion merely represented a lack of religion in government affairs, but the freedom of religion would set more people at ease. ...

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