I also support the idea that if a patient seeks their physicians assistance, the physician should be allowed to help that patient. Under the current law, patients who want to die can either commit suicide on their own, or if competent can refuse all treatment necessary that will prolong their life, but a patient is not given the choice as to when they want to end their life. ... Society's interest in life preservation should be lessened when a person is terminally ill and has strong desire to end their life. ... This is not very different from competent, terminally ill patients being allo...

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While in the hospital, some patients are not at their full mental capacity. ... This is clinically accepted because the surgery is in the best interest of the patient and its objective is to prolong the life of the patient not shorten it. In the case of assisted suicide, once the patient agrees, they have forever sealed their fate. ... Yet the interpretation of the text varies; what constitutes "harming" a patient? ... Senator Brownback stated, "When the law permits killing as a medical treatment, society's moral guidelines are blurred, and killing could gain acceptance as a sol...

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Some people would argue that euthanasia should be illegal since no one can be one hundred percent sure a patient is in pain if they are in a coma or are unable to communicate. However, doctors do not mercy kill unless they are sure the patient is in pain. ... These laws should ensure only the patient is the one who can decide if they want to be put to death, rather than the children, wife, etc. ... Euthanasia or mercy killing allows people who are in severe pain to be put to rest and it is also a choice the patient should be able to make. Having said this, euthanas...

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The help has come in the form of a "living will," a legal statute giving hospital patients the right to decide whether they want to be put on ventilators if certain circumstances succumb the patient. ... Surprisingly though, there are doctors in the world such as Doctor Kavorkian who admit to helping terminable patients on a personal level commit suicide. These doctors have supposedly been helping patients die before "living wills" were even a glimmer in some apathetic politician's eye. ... The right to die issue lasted this way until some people made headlines for helping "murder" their ...

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The help has come in the form of a "living will," a legal statute giving hospital patients the right to decide whether they want to be put on ventilators if certain circumstances succumb the patient. ... Surprisingly though, there are doctors in the world such as Doctor Kavorkian who admit to helping terminable patients on a personal level commit suicide. These doctors have supposedly been helping patients die before "living wills" were even a glimmer in some apathetic politician's eye. ... The right to die issue lasted this way until some people made headlines for helping "murder" their ...

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I feel that late abortion should be justified only if a woman becomes ill after trying to carry her baby out to term. ... We do have machines that doctors can hook patients up with to help prolong life. In some situations they might not find it necessary to hook a patient up to the machine but it is still different than if you support euthanasia. ... Then again I can also agree with the Netherlands, because if a patients request to be put to sleep then why go against their will. ... In every country except South Africa the patients are not responsible for the cost of treatments. ...

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