In the United States one's choice to live according to their beliefs and choices are duly recognized and embraced, but terminally ill patients who wish to choose to die with dignity instead of a painful and prolonged death, oftentimes face enormous challenges to obtain life ending drugs. ... Some patients enduring intolerable, unrelievable suffering as well as some terminally ill patients who are enduring lesser but still severe suffering need this legal right, for they cannot escape from their suffering without it. ... Failed attempts may cause the further development of devastating emo...

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When the person was ill with any type of disease that could not be treated, or what is called a terminal illness, a poison was put in the cup of the victim. ... When a person is terminally ill, his family might suggest the possibility of euthanasia, when in fact, the person that is ill can only request it. ... The family may offer spiritual input, but is not involved in the final decision, nor can a family member request euthanasia for an ill family member. ... Some doctors are helping terminally ill patients commit suicide-a so-called physician-assisted suicide-without being punished. ......

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This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. ... Thus, in what became a groundbreaking law, in 1976, California became the first state to allow terminally ill patients to die when such a patient chooses to withdraw further treatment. ... Competent, terminally ill patients should have the right to avoid pain and embrace a timely and dignified death. ... Many believe that a terminally ill patient has the right to avoid pa...

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For the terminally ill is there such a thing as a positive death? ... That is why Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide should be legalized in all states and provinces of the United States of America if criteria and specific sub-laws are put in place to protect the ill and dying patients along with the patient's family and friends. ... Ultimately euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has too high of a risk of abuse to effectively help terminally ill patients. ... Through physician-assisted suicide an ill and dying patient may have the choice of a comfortable death in their own ho...

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Doctors will not inspire trust unless patients are confident that doctors are for no reasons disposed to kill them; and have no inclinations to ask whether a patient is worth caring for or treating, rather than asking what care or treatment might benefit the patient. The practice of Euthanasia however, disposes doctor to kill certain of their patients and also inculcates a disposition to think of some patients as not having worthwhile lives. ... Marking the devaluation of human life would then lead to steps of ending the lives of mentally ill persons or non-terminally ill patients who are...

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Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue marijuana legalization in order to treat terminally ill patients. ... Cancer patients, for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... These agencies believe that marijuana should not be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands more patients would be using marijuana. ... The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and that knew findings...

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In today's society, patients and doctors argue that it relieves pain, nausea, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, and other symptoms of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, asthma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and paralysis (Donnelly 2). According to studies conducted by researchers at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Cornell Medical College in New York, and the National Institute of Health; marijuana undoubtedly controls nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, some of whom are not helped by standard anti-emetics. ... Also, with marijuana, the patient can have a better regulation of their dosages by ...

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