One of the ways that can help these people is physician assisted suicide. ... In order to prevent all these problems, we need to legalize physician assisted suicide. ... They shouldn't ignore what patients claim, and they can be satisfied with physician assisted suicide. ... What they want, is physician assisted suicide. ... Some people claim that physician assisted suicide is against a Hippocratic Oath. ...

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Another big issue about suicide today is the one that deals with assisted suicide. ... Kervorkian is probably the most famous man in America when it comes to assisted suicide. ... The place that the law has really played a major role in American society is in assisted suicides. There have been many cases where family members and friends have been prosecuted for aiding or assisting in a suicide. ... Only a few of these have passed on the question of whether assisting suicide falls within the...

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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). ... 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 thei...

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This can be further explained by this quote, appearing in the same article: Other, more carefully designed questions can elicit majority support for physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, but only when patients are described as terminally ill AND experiencing unremitting physical pain. 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 h...

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Glucksberg were decided as the prohibition against assisting suicide was not unconstitutional. ... Whereas with physician assisted suicide the physician is taking an active roll in giving a patient a lethal drug to quicken the process so that the end result of death may be quicker. ... It is also a very used practice to give terminally ill patients medication that will ease pain while hastening death it seems that you are assisting in suicide of that patient and some people would say you are killing them. ... A group of philosophers feel that the state has laws that stop a doctor from ...

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