For people who are suffering from terminal illnesses an early death avoids months and maybe years of painful suffering. ... Society's interest in life preservation should be lessened when a person is terminally ill and has strong desire to end their life. ... This is not very different from competent, terminally ill patients being allowed to hasten death by refusing treatment, which could prolong life. ... If a person has a good reason for considering death, for instance, they are elderly and terminal and suffering - it would be unspeakably meddlesome to interfere. ...

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Death, Kevorkian earned his name for his advocacy of physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. ... In The Times story, Kevorkian was depicted as a "lifelong bachelor living off his savings in a tiny, ill-furnished, walk-up apartment in Royal Oak, Michigan, not far from his boyhood home in Pontiac." The Times also reported that he had become "increasingly dominated by the issue of suicide for the terminally ill" (McLellan). ... Furthermore, the investigation showed that "at least 60% of Kevorkian's suicide patients were not terminal. ... In one court appearance, Kevorki...

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This is referred to as assisted suicide, a physician providing an ill, yet competent person with medication to aid in committing suicide. ... Comfort care also suggests that doctors simply do what they can to make life happier for the terminally ill and their family any way they possibly can whether it is through kind words, bright smiles, or funny jokes; anything just to lighten the air and the shoulders of those being burdened by a great illness. ...

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