When a person is diagnosed with an illness they will soon after be faced with many options and it will be necessary for them to make decisions concerning how they wish to spend the rest of their life. ... Assisted suicide, often referred to as euthanasia, is an important issue to discuss because there have not yet been any laws passed either allowing or forbidding it due to the fact that there is no majority opinion concerning the issue. ... And it is a widely debated issue due to its involvement with moral and religious beliefs about who should have ultimate control over human life, medical p...

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Euthanasia Euthanasia is a controversial issue that our society has been debating over for hundreds of years. There are many different view points concerning what is right or wrong when dealing with euthanasia. ... Our society today is still debating on what forms of euthanasia should be legalized or made illegal, and it is questionable if a conclusion will ever be agreed upon. ...

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Euthanasia Euthanasia is a controversial issue that our society has been debating over for hundreds of years. There are many different view points concerning what is right or wrong when dealing with euthanasia. ... Our society today is still debating on what forms of euthanasia should be legalized or made illegal, and it is questionable if a conclusion will ever be agreed upon. ...

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Germany, Great Britain and Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland have been debating on the legalization of euthanasia but only Belgium and the Netherlands have recently legalized euthanasia when employed in certain conditions. The Dutch bill, was adopted in April 2001 and the Belgian bill was adopted in May 2002.These two bills decriminalize euthanasia, that is to say the intervention meant for putting an end to the life of a person asking for it, when realized by a doctor respecting certain conditions concerning both the estate of the patient and the procedure. ...

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The debate over whether or not to use PAS continues to thrive long after the banishment of Kevorkian. ... Although the difference of opinion on physician-assisted suicide between religious and non-religious Americans may lie in the fact that this is part of a larger issue concerning the right to die (Gallup 2). ...

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