Jack Kevorkian was known as "the father of assisted suicide." He helped 130 patients commit assisted suicide until in 1999 he was accused of murder, after showing a tape of the assisted suicide of a subject who was in the terminal phase. Kevorkian used a method of assisted suicide known as the "mercy machine" which intravenously gave a lethal dose of a drug to the patient (Assisted Suicide). ... Golden goes on to say, "The debate about assisted suicide is not new...... " (Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 11). ...

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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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In the article "Assisted Suicide,"" Kate Picket argues the idea of doctor assisted suicide. ... One might conclude that the law about doctor assisted suicide should be abolished (Assisted Suicide"). In "The Right to Assisted Suicide,"" Esther B. ... In "Assisted Suicide: A Right or a Wrong?"... In "Doctor Assisted Suicide,"" Sid Bernstein argues that doctor assisted suicide should be a viable option. ...

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The high moral aspect of physician assisted suicide draws continuous attention to the matter. ... The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops published several articles on their views of physician assisted suicide where they supply information on the morals of suicide and the need to help the people plagued with the ideas of suicide. ... Opponents of physician assisted suicide worry that many elderly or disabled will be discarded in a sense. ... In the 1990's the issue of physician assisted suicide was in headlines all over the world. ... Timothy Quill published Death and Dignity: A...

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Assisted Suicide; Who Has the Right to Choose? Euthanasia or assisted suicide is a very sensitive and debatable topic in today's society. ... Doctors tend to have mixed emotions concerning assisted suicide. ... Oregon is the only state in America that allows assisted suicide. ... I think assisted suicide or passive euthanasia should be made legal. ...

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Wouldn't it be nice if physician- assisted suicide or euthanasia could be a solution? ... Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legal under certain circumstances. ... Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legal under certain circumstances. ... It is a person's individual right to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. ... "7 The decision of assisted suicide is not forced on anyone. ...

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If assisted suicide were legal, people would not have to go to extremes or take brutal measures to end their suffering. ... Because assisted suicide is not legal in California, Californians are forced to go to extreme measures if they wish to obtain physician assisted suicide. ... All three of these states have strict guidelines and requirements to ensure that there is no misuse of assisted suicide; key restriction that these states have and common--and would have in common with the California's ELOA--is that, in order to receive assisted suicide in their state, you must be a terminally i...

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Assisted suicide is when a doctor or medical staff person prescribes a lethal amount of medication with the intent of helping a person commit suicide. ... These words of our religion and of our God tell us assisted suicide is not an option. Laws currently state that it is a criminal offense to assist in the suicide of anyone. ... Many individuals that contemplate suicide and support assisted suicide suffer from undiagnosed or untreated mental illness. ... Many of the requests for assisted suicide are linked to unrelieved pain along with other discomforts. ...

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However, assisting another person to commit suicide remains a criminal act with the exception of Oregon. Physician assisted suicide questions whether one person should commit suicide and whether another person should be permitted to help. ... The debate whether physician assisted suicide should be legalized is not likely to be resolved in the near future, but with assisted suicide being legal in Oregon, the issue will definitely be studied and tested (Leone 15). In ancient times, assisted suicide was seen as a way to keep one's honor, but for the past twenty-five years, assisted suicide...

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Therefore, physician-assisted suicide is in fact a "good" act according to some. ... The intent in physician-assisted suicide is to relieve pain and suffering. ... Therefore, it does not logically follow that "because it is morally wrong to murder another human except in the case of self-defense, and physician-assisted suicide is not self defense, it is therefore wrong to engage in physician-assisted suicides". ... In its essence, this can be looked at similarly to physician-assisted-suicides. ... Taking the control away from nature and assisting in the suicide of a dying patient seems barbari...

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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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Physician assisted suicide is the process of a physician supplying information and or the means of committing suicide to a patient. ... One may ask, what is the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide? ... It assisted suicide, a person knowingly and intentionally provides the means or in some way helps a suicidal person killed himself or herself. ... For all practical purposes, any distinction between euthanasia and assisted suicide has been abandoned today. ... Suicide and attempted suicide are not criminalized. ...

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Lisa can not do it by herself; she needs someone to assist her. ... (Physician Assisted Death) and the act of euthanasia in America. ... However, if a doctor simply places the lethal injection by the patient's side, and the patient injects himself or herself, the doctors would be charged with assisted suicide. ... Most doctors hesitate to practice assisted suicide on legal grounds. ... Many religious people follow this principle, so they do not agree with suicide and assisting dying. ...

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An article called, "Suicide Facts, Assisted Suicides Euthanasia and Terminal Illness", by Geo Stone, tells that "In the United States, treatment-refusal is the only legally-protected method for choosing death", only after the patients have been determined legally competent (Stone para 32). ... Are there more healthcare professionals assisting in mercy killings than we know? It is astounding the number of healthcare professionals that do assist in mercy killings. ... Of those 17% (126) had assisted by means of large doses of pain medicine and 4% (39) said they had withheld treatments that...

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