It is a movement in support of the free choice for terminally ill persons to determine the circumstances in which they want to end their suffering. ... Kevorkian, as he illegally assisted roughly 130 ill patients in committing suicide, through the use of his suicide machine, which delivered successive doses of lethal fluids. ... One example of medical professionals feeling deprived, is when patients are terminally ill and ask the doctor to help them end their suffering, and the doctor has no way of helping them. Because assisted suicide is now punishable with up to 14 years in prison, doctors ...

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Euthanasia is an act of assisting a patient by lethal injection or with a cocktail of barbiturates. ... Euthanasia should be legalized in all states because it allows the patient to chose their fate at anytime, retains their dignity, and gives the patients family comfort knowing their loved one isn't suffering anymore.  ... Keeping a terminally ill patient alive is a crime. ... Keeping a terminally ill patient alive brings an outrageous financial burden. ... But, if proper guidelines are in place to determine that the person is terminally ill and have a time period that they go by befor...

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The doctor prescribed a lethal amount of barbiturates to longtime patient at the patient's request. ... Euthanasia is humane because, as stats indicate, it would end suffering of terminally ill, not bring flow of meaningless deaths by abusive doctors. When a patient suffers from a disease, the patient may become to ill to rationalize. ... In other words, the patient is sane. ... If legalization of euthanasia is accepted the terminally ill will die with peacefully and with dignity. ...

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As scary as it may seem, the reality is that euthanasia is an escape for terminally ill patients, children, Alzheimer's, and other rare cases alike. ... Death', a medical pathologist claimed to have assisted in the suicide of 130 terminally ill patients. ... Leave it to doctors like Kevorkian, and you'd have suicide clinics on street corners of California for the terminal ill and others alike. ... For the patient's sake they should be glad the option is there. ... Once again overlooking the simple fact that, children grow terminally ill too and do die as well as adults. ...

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Active euthanasia is taking the specific steps necessary to cause the patient's death, and is performed by request of the patient. ... It should be the patient's final decision to have the choice to die with dignity. ... On the other hand, a terminally-ill patient has no other choice than to undergo euthanasia. ... The cost to keep the patient alive is not worth spending, considering the fact that the family is prolonging the patient's suffering. ... It is necessary to weigh the pros and cons of this social issue in order to see how euthanasia can either benefit or ha...

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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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