Animal testing results in the death of 1.4 million a year. ... I believe animals shouldn't be used for such purposes in order to help humans relieve pain and suffering because in turn they experience pain and at times death. ... Animal testing is cruelty. ... Products such as shampoo and cologne are tested on animals time and time again resulting in suffering and in some cases death. ... For this reason I think animal testing should be eradicated....

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No experiment should be conducted when there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects. 6. ... Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote responsibilities of injury, disability or death. 8. ... During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of good faith, superior ...

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Disturbing repots of miscarriages, stillbirths, birth defects and death among the babies conceived by the returning soldiers have also emerged. ... Stroke is a dominant cause of sickness and death. ... Moreover, animal tests have a dubious record in predicting useful drugs to combat the effects of a stroke. ... Furthermore, as Dr.Sharpe states: "the leading cause of deaths in patients suffering form sub arachnoid hemorrhage is cerebral vasospasm, a condition in which the blood vessels in the brain constrict. Human cerebra blood vessels, obtained within twenty-hours of death, have been used to ...

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Others believe that is a safer approach to test new health products. ... The product is either inhaled, ingested, or tested through eye/skin contact. ... For example, in eye irritation testing, rabbits are commonly used. ... These experiments are not all make it through the animal testing stage, in fact, the numbers of products that make it to human testing are small, and the number of products that make it to the shelf are even smaller. 1 in 10,000 tested products are shipped to stores. ... "A life is a life," Chris DeRose Head of an animal right's foundation stated, " If the dea...

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The essential question at hand is as follows: does the possibility of great human gain (i.e. saving many lives), outweigh the certain death of many baby seals? ... That being said, from a strictly utilitarian stance, the "utility" would be maximized if we did follow through and continue with testing (assuming a cure was found). In other words, the most net happiness would be created if the seals were tested on and killed, thus fulfilling the greatest happiness principal. Furthermore, seals are not part of the moral community; meaning they don't have the capacity to be moral agents, a...

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In the beginning we see a person given a test, the "Voigt Kampff" test. It is a test of his emotional reactions to situations. ... It seemed Roy would have to face imminent death alone. ... At one stage Rachel asks if he has ever taken the "Voigt Kampff" test himself. ... He sees that his task is to sit there and watch Roy die, because the best way in which another human can acknowledge humanity in those moments was to watch that death but more importantly to watch it as a death of another human being. ...

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The prevention of animal suffering or death, although still important, is secondary to that. ... Without testing medicines on animals, the only way of testing would be to directly try it on humans. ... There are many painful tests performed on animals. ... But it is very difficult to understand why companies continue to test on animals the products that are not required to be tested on animals, like cosmetics and pesticides. ... There are many other ways for testing and life should not be sacrificed. ...

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Although researchers have depended on animal test data to achieve medical advances, there should be other means of research because testing on animals is cruel, inhumane, and often unnecessary. Perhaps it would be more beneficial and humane to test on violent criminals such as rapists, murderers, and others on death row. ... Many AIDS patients have said they are willing to try out new drugs, so why not let them volunteer for testing. In most cases the drugs will need to be tested on humans before the FDA will approve them anyway. ...

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To do tests on them- see what they are capable of. ... Animals and humans have been, and will be tested on. ... Of course for that research you need to run tests. But how do you test if that problem is in a human. Do we sacrifice the life or healthiness of one human in order to save hundreds or do we not test and then not know any cure, leading to the death of many. ...

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They are tested on numerous times throughout each year. ... Acute toxicity is a test where animals are force fed chemicals to find out the lethal dosage. ... Pointless test like the effects of shocking and drug abuse are known as psychology research test. Animals endure a lot of pain and suffering because they are being tested on. ... Animals testing should come to a halt because it causes unnecessary suffering and deaths. ...

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He was also testing existing drugs to see if they could cure new diseases as well as old. ... Moreover, they could not test on anyone or anything that could not give written consent. Human testing became more and more of the norm in the world. ... There were times the same people would return for more testing to receive additional money. There were also the people that would return badly scarred or disfigured from previous testing. ...

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Death pervades in the story but not as the end of somebody's life, but as a kind of living death. The act of living is the real death for Bartleby. ... Their characters were tested when Bartleby refused to work, refused to eave the building, and even the refusal of answering simple questions. ...

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This piece of literature is a work of literary merit because it has a message that is timeless and one that has stood the test of time at the same time. ... Wright, who was strangled to death supposedly by his wife, Mrs. ... One of them is a message that withstands the test of time and has timelessness. "Interpreter of Maladies," by Jhumpa Lahiri is an example of literary merit because it has a message that has withstood the test of time and has timelessness. ... In "Interpreter of Maladies" has a message that has with stood the test of time. ...

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According to The Sucralose Toxicity Information Center, sucralose is broken down "into small amounts of 1, 6-dichlorofructose, a chemical which has not been adequately tested in humans." ... While this chemical has not yet been adequately tested in humans our government still chose to approve this product to put on the market for us to consume as a sugar substitute. The government didn't wait until every possible test was done long term and short term. ... Pre-approval test indicated potential toxicity of sucralose. 2.) ... It took government agencies decades to agree that there were cou...

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Yet, we, the public have been led to believe that vivisection, more commonly known as animal testing and dissection, is responsible for "mericle cures" and "medical breakthroughs." ... An example is that since 1971 when President Nixon declared "the war on cancer" the rate of cancer incidences as of September 1994 went up 18%, and the rate of cancer deaths has gone up 7% relative to population growth. ...

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With the death of his best friend, Gilgamesh is distraught with grief and denial. ... I am afraid of death, so I wander the wild, to find Uta-napishti, son of Ubar-Tutu" (IX. 3-6). ... To Uruk-the-Sheepfold I will take it, to an ancient I will feed some and put the plant to the test" (XI. 295-298). ... The fear of death is held by everyone. Perhaps it is the connection of death with pain or the unknown state of the human consciousness after death, or maybe a combination of both, which creates this fear. ...

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Researchers have found that heritable diseases cause a lot of early deaths in many Americans. ... Approximately 70% of these deaths are related to genetic conditions that may have been prevented (92). ... Many believed that these "test-tube babies" were not a natural form of conception and feared that these children may not live up the expectations of society. As we have come to find out, these "test-tube babies" have turned out as predicted. ... Forbidden Tests. ...

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Does he have his right to choose his death? ... In other words, in the current system a person my choose life, the positive option, but a person may not choose death, the negative. ... On the day of death, the patient is to administer the provided euthanasia technique on his or her own while being recorded. The patient self administering the deadly process is a true test as to whether he or she really wanted to die at all. ... These very basic and very precise steps will lead to a fair and just self-desired death. ...

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Robinson's hero, Matty, is initially portrayed as a child, hiding from his father's death. ... Reba and Jeremiah vie to expose Matty from hiding by sentencing his former nurse to death. ... The quest that this hero is on takes a grave turn and Matty's growth as a person and as a leader will be tested. Antczak says "the hero must utilize these strengths when engaging a foe in tests of power." ...

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The EPA does tests to make sure that the levels of pesticides on food are low enough so that it is safe for children and infants to consume. ... By viewing the test results, one could conclude that the levels on some items are decreasing and on some it is increasing near high-risk. ... The amount of pesticides are monitored from country to country; however, the reliability of these tests vary considerably from country to country because of lack of technology available, therefore we cannot be entirely sure how much pesticides are being applied to food, or if it is safe to consume these produce...

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Despair, as the sickness unto death. ... Literally, the phrase " Despair is the sickness unto death " connotes an illness of which outcome would be death, as death is doubtless the last phase in a sickness and yet for Kierkegaard it would not appear to be the last thing" . ... Hence, despair becomes the sickness unto death. ... This would come into connection that life itself becomes a school God made for suffering, He grants a test to those whom he see worthy to be adjudged as a faithful follower and furnishes them with suffering and anxiety as his guide. In anyway, Kierkegaard views them bo...

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According to this view, when the use of animals for human purposes is important enough, even when it involves some suffering and even death on the animals part, then using it is morally acceptable. Animals are needed for food and the experiments which use them save millions of human beings from suffering and death. ... They must be against any unnecessary and painful experiments, caging them up in zoos or circuses, hunting them for sport, or buying cosmetics that are tested on animals. ...

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We can also learn how to fix certain disorders, thus leading to tests and research in similar human disorders. For example, sheep have a disease of the brain, called Scrapie, that causes tremors, loss of motion, and eventually death. ...

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Death and basically total annihilation has absolutely terrified the human inhabitants of Earth and have decided to go to any length to preserve the timespan of life for a little while longer. ... In hindsight, this all much better than what makes a warrior in the society of Brave New World, where a warrior is determined by the amount of amino acids in his test tube prior to his birth and also by the average number of women he bends over a month. ...

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Narrative is a primary means for testing with concrete particularizations the benefits and disadvantages of specific ethical decisions. ... Finally, decay and death imagery is pervasive throughout the text, which leaves the reader agitated. ... The reader is faced with choices of good vs. evil, past vs. present, and accepting life vs. ignoring death. ... For instance, the town mayor, Colonel Satoris, "remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity" (Faulker 29). ... Through illustration of the setting and symbolization, Faulkner gives the final ...

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