Euthanasia or "Physician Assisted-Suicide" is "Suicide accomplished with the aid of another person, especially a physician.... "Euthanasia and assisted suicide should not be considered acceptable responses. ... The Salvation Army believes, therefore, that euthanasia and assisted suicide should be illegal" (Salvation Army). ... (Meagan Best, Andrew Cameron) Even so, euthanasia and the contradictory ethical questions pertaining to its use should not be mistaken for the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures which does not constitute as assisted-suicide...

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Euthanasia: Murder or Mercy? ... Support dwindles when the public is asked about physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in virtually any other situation. Two thirds of Americans oppose physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia when a terminally ill patient has no pain but wants to die because of concern about being a burden to his or her family, or because he or she finds a drawn-out dying process meaningless. The most accurate characterization of the survey data is that a significant majority of Americans oppose physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia EXCEPT in the limited case of a ...

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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. It is my strong opinion that Euthanasia should not be legalized because it undermines the dispositions we require in doctors and is therefore destructive of the practice of medicine, it is not our right to terminate life, and it would change society's view of suicide. ... Allowing physician-assisted suicide will change the public's view on suicide entirely. ... Ano...

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This procedure differs from physician-assisted suicide, where the patient performs the last act. ... Thus we are left with physician-assisted suicide and the four types of euthanasia, which as described above are: active voluntary euthanasia, active involuntary euthanasia, passive voluntary euthanasia, and passive involuntary euthanasia (Baird 10-11). Physician assisted suicide, which currently legal only in the state of Oregon and the country of Holland, assumes the victim as performing the final act of the suicide that would not have been possible without the assistance of a doctor (Eutha...

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