Suppose I am terminally ill. ... The most accurate characterization of the survey data is that a significant majority of Americans oppose physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia EXCEPT in the limited case of a terminally ill patient with uncontrollable pain. ... Numerous sources and research studies have come up with the conclusion that the main reason for terminally ill patients choosing to undergo euthanasia is depression, a symptom which is hardly life-threatening. ... Take into account these are actual terminally ill patients who must seriously consider this option for their own we...

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In the United States one's choice to live according to their beliefs and choices are duly recognized and embraced, but terminally ill patients who wish to choose to die with dignity instead of a painful and prolonged death, oftentimes face enormous challenges to obtain life ending drugs. ... Some patients enduring intolerable, unrelievable suffering as well as some terminally ill patients who are enduring lesser but still severe suffering need this legal right, for they cannot escape from their suffering without it. ... Failed attempts may cause the further development of devastating emo...

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Terminally ill people try to practice this right with medically assisted suicide but are unable to due to where they live. Although it may go against some moral codes, terminally ill citizens are still people of the government. ... If a hopelessly ill person requests it and the doctor agrees the request is rational. ... Although chemotherapy helps saves cancer patients it hurts them in the process (Torr 52). ... Euthanasia is a limited right, therefore it is not an option to be given to the depressed, mentally ill, or children. ...

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These options will help patients that are terminally ill be relieved of their pain if this is their wish. ... The Assisted Dying Bill states that for patients to be considered to receive physician-assisted suicide, they must be adults that are terminally ill that can make voluntary and informed decisions. ... Last, the patient can back out of the decision at any point. This guarantees that patients are certain about their decision. ... Also, "74% of Germans said they thought euthanasia for seriously ill patients should be legalized"6. ...

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A person would have to be diagnosed as terminally ill. ... Many terminally ill people are living in excessive pain for long periods of time. ... Although many physicians oppose assisted suicide, arguing that patients should seek proper medical care, most terminally ill people die in excessive pain due to inadequate care. Some terminally ill choose assisted suicide because of large medical bills that begin to add up. ... I don't think euthanasia should be used on elderly people who are not terminally ill as a means to clear space. ...

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For the terminally ill is there such a thing as a positive death? ... That is why Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide should be legalized in all states and provinces of the United States of America if criteria and specific sub-laws are put in place to protect the ill and dying patients along with the patient's family and friends. ... Ultimately euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has too high of a risk of abuse to effectively help terminally ill patients. ... Through physician-assisted suicide an ill and dying patient may have the choice of a comfortable death in their own ho...

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If a doctor presents the patient with all of their options and the patient decides to suicide, there should be no problem. ... He relates the story of a patient that had multiple sclerosis. ... Strohm also suggests that a patient who is terminally ill may not want to prolong the inevitable. ... One might observe that terminally ill patients should be allowed the right to doctor assisted suicide. ... One might conclude that doctor assisted suicide for terminally ill patients should be legalized....

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The patient then takes the dose or turns the switch (Gregory). ... During 2002, physicians in Oregon gave fatal prescriptions to about seventy-five terminally ill individuals. ... The mental illness of depression, in terminal ill patients, can also be missed and be the cause of their desire to end life. ... Another reason depression is not treated is patients don't tell everything to their doctor. ... New methods of pain management enable the ill to live better lives. ...

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Death, Kevorkian earned his name for his advocacy of physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. ... In The Times story, Kevorkian was depicted as a "lifelong bachelor living off his savings in a tiny, ill-furnished, walk-up apartment in Royal Oak, Michigan, not far from his boyhood home in Pontiac." The Times also reported that he had become "increasingly dominated by the issue of suicide for the terminally ill" (McLellan). ... On June 4, 1990, Janet Adkins became the first patient to test Kevorkian's mercitron. ... Furthermore, the investigation showed that "at least 6...

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If you are sick or ill, it would be very hurt and painful. ... " The patients confesses that this is not a life. ... They are ill, and weak. ... If these patients agree to donate their vital organs to future patients after physician assisted suicide, it is also beneficial to hospital, future patients, and the donators themselves. ... It stating that the patients must be over age 18 or older, the patients must be capable of making and communicating health-care decisions, patients must be suffering from a terminal disease that will lead to death within six months, etc (Barone). ...

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Today there are thousands of terminally ill patients in long term care facilities across Canada. ... At this time, the Law Reform Commission recommended that the Criminal Code of Canada be changed to protect doctors who help patients at their request, but no action has yet been taken. ... They believe denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity is unfair and cruel, and they believe that people have the right to die with dignity and lucidity. ... Should doctors and family members be legally permitted to decide the fate of a patient who has no hope of recovery? ...

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An example of this would be a physician who administers a lethal dosage of a medicine causing the patient to die. Passive euthanasia occurs when the death of a patient occurs from the doctor withholding or withdrawing treatment. An example of this is when a physician removes a feeding tube, and the patient dies sooner because of this. ... Euthanasia, by virtue of being offered only to terminally ill patients, is meant to offer a quick and, by comparison, painless death to people who would have otherwise had to face the hardships of a prolonged death. ... In this case, we allow the physicia...

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All euthanasia patients were suffering from a chronic disease. ... Washington the Supreme Court found that the 14th amendment of the US constitution guarantees terminally ill competent adults a "liberty interest" in doctor-assisted suicide. ... This law was put into effect in 1994 and is the only standing law, in the US, that lets fatally ill people make decisions to pass on before their time. ... In the year 2000 21 terminally ill Oregon residents chose assisted dying. ...

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