It is believed that we as human beings are in no position to behave as god and end someone's life. The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine in the United States today. ... A distinction is made between positive, or active, and negative, or passive, euthanasia. Positive euthanasia is the deliberate ending of life; an action taken to cause death in a person. ... (Lamm 133) Euthanasia is a very cheap service. ...

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The ethical question is in the difference between Passive Euthanasia and Active Euthanasia. ... The line has been blurred to gray in many aspects of euthanasia. ... "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). ... Euthanasia derives from two Greek words meaning, "good death". ...

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Euthanasia is a very controversial subject today and not an easy one for most people to take a stance on, but I believe the direct action of another person to kill someone else is never acceptable, even when the victim is asking for it. ... I agree with this law and believe that every patient has the right to refuse maximum medical help if they wish to die. ... The previous scenario, an example of active voluntary euthanasia, is believed by pro-euthanasia supporters to be a decision that is to be left up to the patient and that we are to carry out the request, even if it will cause death....

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I believe that physician assisted suicide is actually helping the incurable patients and their family, so it should be legalized not only in the 5 states of America, but rest of the states. ... I personally believe that there is no point of living without happiness with deadly pain. ... What if we don't allow them euthanasia? ... Therefore, we should listen to them carefully, and believe what they say; "I need a death pill, and let me finish my life. ... Netherland is the one of the countries that has legalized euthanasia, and there is a similar law system to Oregon (Berghm...

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James Rachels felr that by just picking to let die and not play an active role in using euthanasia you are prolonging the suffering which goes against the idea of the humanity in which we are arguing over in the first place. ... Rachels attacks the idea that when a doctor performs euthanasia he does something and when he refuses treatment he does not. ... If a patient wants euthanasia then he is giving a valid authorization and it is no longer killing but letting die. ... It is what the patient wants and believes would be the best for himself, much to do with a value with his or her own li...

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Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people believed to be inferior or below average mentally and physically (Glass). ... In the early Thirties, it was believed that the race, indeed the world, needed to be purified of those elements of humanity that would bring the breeding pool down. ... Euthanasia, the killing of people for the greater good, was also a means of purging the world of inferior people. ... They believed that pilots of the U.S. ...

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The organization advocated active euthanasia, or aiding the death of a hopelessly ill individual."... The first amendment alone gives us the freedom to determine what religion we want to believe in, and the right to say what we want when we want to say it. ...

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