So, then, why do people still permit this to go on, why has it become an option for terminally ill patients? ... The second is where the patient is unconscious and unable to decide what to do with their own life. ... Another key reason is that the patients are clinically depressed. In a study done, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who requested assisted suicide, all had also been diagnosed with clinical depression (Euthanasia.com). ...

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However, the competence for giving consent is not exercised by every individual patient (example, mental ill patient and a minor). ... NMC (2008) code of conduct asserts that a registered healthcare professional must make the care of a patient her priority in every situation. Therefore, every health care professional own to every patient a duty of care. ... Health care professionals, have a legal and ethical obligation to maintaining the sense of duty of care to the patient and patient family. ... The ethical principle of non-maleficence (Beauchamp and Childress, 1989) suggests that harm shoul...

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Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. If a woman chooses to prematurely end her child, the child can't do anything about his or her life being taken away from them. Their entire future is annihilated. A mother slaughters her unborn child, yet...

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Abortion: Life or Death, Who chooses? During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most debatable subject of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. Abortion poses a moral, social and med...

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