1. Euthanasia
Webster's Dictionary defines euthanasia as a painless and easy death. ... Humans have emotions that include anxiety, fear, love, compassion, sadness, and happiness. ... Of all these emotions listed, humans seem to be loosing one; compassion. ...
But how do prosecutors define the difference between ending a person's life with his or her permission, and helping a person commit suicide? ... "That is a supreme moment for love and compassion, by caregivers of the dying and by the dying for their caregivers (5)." ... It is time for all who have any true sense of compassion toward the dying, and who expect to receive compassionate care when they themselves are dying, to work unremittingly to foster adequate practice of palliative medical care. ...
As far as the law is concerned, those who are pro-assisted suicide not only feel that it should be officially made legal, but that it would be wrong to ban it, claiming that "prohibition of physician-assisted suicide handcuffs doctors who want to show compassion to patients whose bodies are irreversibly falling apart despite excellent medical care" (Wekesser 103). ... Another common ground between the pros and the cons is the need for a defined limitation of the use of medical and technological advancement in the alteration of natural life. ...
He had compassion and humanity for others including his wife of 22 years. ... This movement led Derek to found the Hemlock Society five years later and today the organization is well known as the "Compassion in Dying and End-of-Life Choices organization.... He truly believed that ethics and death comes hand-in-hand in relieving the suffering of those who need compassion the most. ... The right to die is defined as the putative right for a person to decide not to be kept alive by heroic means and die with dignity [Def14]. ...
Unfortunately, in the rest of America those Doctors who out of compassion, agree to such requests know they are breaking the law and putting their careers at risk. ... Passive euthanasia is usually defined as withdrawing medical treatment with the deliberate intention of causing the patient's death. ...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines suicide as the act of taking one's own life; it originates from the Latin word suicidium when broken down sui, means of oneself, while cidium, is equivalent to the suffix -cide which means killer ("Suicide"). The Oxford English Dictionary also defines assisted suicide as suicide effected with the assistance of another person ("Assisted suicide"). ... An international panel of the World Health Organization defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative therapies" (qtd. in Foley 293). ...