She is only thirty-six years old and tells you that she feels her time is up and now all she wants is to say her goodbyes and she wants help ending her life. What do you do? Is the answer euthanasia, or do you let her live out the rest of her short life in pain and misery? ... In a typical situation, a person has some terrible, deadly disease. ... In addition, one should have the right to end his life by euthanasia because of the unsolicited pain, suffering, and misery he feels due to the disease he has or the condition he is in. ...

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But Janet didn't care what the environment was," he told People magazine. ... Afterwards, Kevorkian called authorities and reported what had happened (McLellan). As she drifted off to sleep, Adkins told Kevorkian, "Thank you, thank you so much" and he replied," Have a nice trip" (McLellan). ... Thomas Youk was a 52-year-old accountant from Detroit with Lou Gehrig's disease. ... "You had the audacity to go on national TV, show the world what you did and dare the prosecution to stop you," said Oakland County Circuit Judge Jessica Cooper to Kevorkian after sentencing him. ...

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While modern medicine has made some miraculous leaps forward in treating many fatal diseases. There are still diseases for which there is no cure, and in some cases in the advanced stages of some diseases; the patient must endure uncontrollable, torturous pain. ... Youk was suffering with Lou Gehrig's disease (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevor kian/chronology.html). ... This law simply stated that if you were in anyway handicapped you would be put to death; so the remaining, superior individuals would live better lives (Encyclopedia of Bioethics 560). ...

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So, one may ask, what is the main cause for euthanasia? ... We tend to view them as less of humans due to their crippling diseases instead of patients with needs. ... Torr entitled Euthanasia: Opposing Viewpoints, how are we assisting the disabled by injecting them with a completely separate and deadly disease from the one they already suffer? ... In the end, we must consider what is best for those who actually face daily a struggle between life and death. ... Value others and other's lives enough to grant them the ability to live, because you never know when they may change their min...

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No one can reasonably deny this, but it exacerbates a problem which has always been an issue, such as how do you treat those patients who are alive, but are not living lives they think are worthwhile, and have no prospects for anything better. ... Examples of those suffering from physical and psychological burdens are those who are living with Parkinson's disease, AIDS and even severe brain trauma, and many others who have been faced with life altering illnesses. ... You see similar situations when people elect to have a do not resuscitate order, because they want to avoid what life mig...

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Sometimes you might find a person that wishes not to take any medication, rather just let nature have its way. 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. ... What both parties share is the desire to meet the needs of a dying patient. ... 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 ...

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For example; some people tend to work more extra time to avoid thinking of time passing and what will come next. ... In an advertisement for "Fair and Lovely" cream; a cream for whitening and tightening skin, they attempted to tempt women to use it saying "do you want to hide wrinkles and have a new look, buy it " why women aspire to have a young faces?... However; immortality exists in another way in Islamic culture for what is waiting for believers after death in heaven, as what is mentioned in the Holy Quran. ... It's much like the cycle of seasons spring , summer , autumn , and winter...

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The causes leading up to the death of a person suffering from a terminal disease can often times be horrific and require the patient to endure incredible pain. ... You don=t want to see your pets continue to suffer, nor would we want to see one of our human loved ones suffer. ... If it is the person's own life, shouldn't they have the right to decide when, and by what means they wish to end it? ...

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The notions of perfection was what the Egyptians strived to ascertain and for most, this was only achievable in death. ... There is in no text I have read, that suggests that the use of cosmetics and elaborate wigs meant that you were looked down favourably by the gods, but more that the Egyptians viewed these items as virtual necessities. ... There is evidence to suggest that those Egyptians, who were born with illnesses and diseases, would believe it was a punishment direct from the gods and for those with missing limbs suicide was imminent. ...

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The notions of perfection was what the Egyptians strived to ascertain and for most, this was only achievable in death. ... There is in no text I have read, that suggests that the use of cosmetics and elaborate wigs meant that you were looked down favourably by the gods, but more that the Egyptians viewed these items as virtual necessities. ... There is evidence to suggest that those Egyptians, who were born with illnesses and diseases, would believe it was a punishment direct from the gods and for those with missing limbs suicide was imminent. ...

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The debate still rages today as terminally ill people fight for what they feel is their right to put an end to their suffering and to die a more dignified death. The opposition believes that no matter what the reason, suicide is morally wrong. ... An international panel of the World Health Organization defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative therapies" (qtd. in Foley 293). ... Most societies throughout time have felt suicide is ethically wrong, however, some societies such as the Vikings believed that to die during battle or com...

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Since both active and passive euthanasia consequently terminates an individual's life, is it not better to relieve the patients suffering as soon as possible, even if this means to kill rather than letting the individual die due to disease. ... For example there are only a few ways of moving, such as stabbing or shooting which would result in your death and a large number of actions which would result in you remaining alive. Therefore due to Bennett's thesis (McGrath 2003) we should not feel morally responsible for the deaths of thousands each year as we have only let what would'...

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Lopez explains that Tippetts, a woman in the process of dying of cancer, also supports the rejection of assisted suicide, by quoting her once again, "in your choosing your death, you are robbing those that love you with such tenderness, the opportunity of meeting you in your last moments and extending you love in your last breaths" (Lopez). ... Kheriaty reported that "according to the Centers for Disease Control, suicide is currently the third leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults and the tenth leading cause of death overall for individuals over the age of ...

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So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  ... 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. This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the disease that it is killing him or her. ... In contrast, there have been other physicians who believe strongly in...

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In this essay I will firstly be defining what euthanasia is and how it differentiates from other terms, such as assisted suicide and murder. ... The exact definition for euthanasia is, "The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma" (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015). ... Also that killing ourselves just for the reason being that our body is not what it used to be is wrong. A Kant maxim is a rule that what rational human beings should live by in order to live a good moral life. One of his maxims is regarding universality for example ...

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