So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  ... On December 10th, 1828, New York was the first state that specifically prohibits assisted suicide and it initiated a new law for America, the 14th amendment, to condemn the acts of assisting suicide. ... Death, chose to participate as the first physician to assist in a suicide. ... There are many arguments against assisted suicide, as well as arguments in favor of assisted suicide. ... Assisted suicide may be a compassionate response to unremitting suffering. ...

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They also do not want to burden themselves or their family with these problems and feel that assisted suicide is something that will help their situation. ... In opposition to this idea of assisted suicide are many physicians and medical professionals. ... Many people ask why a person might request such a thing as assisted suicide? ... And a third reason as to why people want assisted suicide is due to the pain (Euthanasia.com). ... They also believe that assisted suicide is...

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The demands for assisted suicide and euthanasia are increasing and are causing upheaval throughout America. ... Nevertheless during the Renaissance, people stopped to criticize suicide. ... For the court to accept assisted suicide would send a false signal that a less-than-perfect life is not worth living (Chicago Tribune, 1996)." This stance is surprisingly different from surveys of Jewish willingness to participate in physician-assisted suicide. ... On one side are the people who want to legalize physician-assisted suicide because they believe that it is an individual's choice to de...

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When a person takes his or her own lives with or without someone's help it is suicide and morally suicide is wrong both socially and biblically. ... There are arguments against this however, such as the one made by Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the McGill Center for Medicine, Ethics, and Law against those who support physician-assisted suicide. ... Doctor assisted death makes it too easy to just end life, and society is letting suicide set the precedent for accepting an attitude that devalues human life. ... Many believe Oregon made a grave mistake by legalizing assist...

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When the Oregon physician-assisted suicide statute became law, nurses opposed to suicide on moral grounds were concerned about their ability to exercise their professional autonomy without abandoning their patient. ... The association's White Paper on Assisted Suicide provides guidelines for ethically withdrawing from a case without abandoning the patient for nurses who do not want to be involved, as well as guidelines for nurses willing to care for the patient who is committing physician-assisted suicide.12 Although the principle of respect for autonomy is of major importance, other ...

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" New York State passed a statute in 1828 and was the first state to outlaw any form of assisted suicide (Campo-Flores 50). ... The fact that doctors ignore the law and continue to assist in suicides regardless of the fact that they may be charged with manslaughter or murder is what causes issues. ...

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