Allowing physician-assisted suicide will change the public's view on suicide entirely. Society will begin to look at suicide as a good rather than bad, humane rather than inhumane, legal rather than illegal. It will also put doctors in a cost-interest position which will cause them to ask themselves -why spend so much money in treatment and other life-sustaining technologies when resorting to physician-assisted suicide would be much cheaper. ... Many times the doctor might not pursue treatment so valiantly and look towards physician-assisted suicide as an alternative. Euthanasia u...

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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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The Germans felt that many allied ships started flying the neutral flag so that it could assist in their safety. ... These soldiers that made it back to where they could receive medical attention would later die from diseases, infections and many committed suicide due to various reasons. ...

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