Some feel that a terminally ill patient should have a legal right to control the manner in which they die. ... Many families of the terminally ill have exhausted all of their funds caring for a dying patient and would prefer the option of assisted suicide to bankruptcy. While there are many strong opposing viewpoints, one of the strongest is that the terminally ill patient has the right to die in a humane, dignified manner. However, dignity in dying is not necessarily assured when a trusted doctor, whose professional ethics are to promote and maintain life, injects a terminally ill patient wit...

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They found that 47% of Americans are in favor of allowing physician-assisted suicide for those that are terminally ill while a close 49% are against it. ... All these things would be more or less a perfect description of the everyday life of a terminally ill patient. ... Most of the reasons why terminally ill patients request doctors to assist them in committing suicide might be caused by problems such as hopelessness because there is no effective treatment, anxiety over doctors' very expensive fees, and regret for their family's burden of taking care of them. ... A painless life u...

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His aim was to help the hopeless patients who are terminally ill or suffering from debilitating pain to commit suicide effortlessly. ... The patient's wish - see, that's not my wish. ... He says you are the servant of the patient. ... So I've got to do what the patient requires. ... The government should not have the right to a terminally ill person's life. ...

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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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In some sad cases, even if there is the option of treatment, the patient's body may be so over-taken by their disease that it would be of no help. ... This is referred to as assisted suicide, a physician providing an ill, yet competent person with medication to aid in committing suicide. ... What both parties share is the desire to meet the needs of a dying patient. ... Comfort care also suggests that doctors simply do what they can to make life happier for the terminally ill and their family any way they possibly can whether it is through kind words, bright smiles, or funny jokes; anythi...

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The thought of dying from terminally ill brain cancer and never having kids was heartbreaking to her. ... Physician assisted suicide occurs when a physician facilitates a patient's death by providing the necessary mean and/or information to enable the patient to perform the life ending act. ...

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