The main reason for euthanasia is to reduce the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients. ... The patient then receives medicine to reduce the pain and suffering. Anti-euthanasiasts lobby that euthanasia is murder and that physician assisting with the suicide should be punished, however; pro-euthanasiasts want to give terminally ill patients the right to chose and not punish the physician that assisted in the suicide ("Euthanasia 2) The patients' right is another reason for legalizing euthanasia. ... Suicide is legal according to the constitution, but patients that are terminally ...

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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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Usually the incurably ill people ask their physician or relative to put them to death. ... But what most doctors do not realize is you should treat the patient, not the disease. And it is more important for a fatally ill patient to die painlessly and happy, rather than suffer on through life. Doctors should work to help the patient be satisfied and happy in everyway. ... It can help many patients and one day you might even wish is was legal. ...

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If the family is not prepared, they cannot ask the ill member to hold on for them. ... The answer is people who are euthanized are terminally ill or in such discomfort their quality of life has gone down to a degree not worth living. ... Those who are terminally ill know that their life will not get any better. ... They are keeping the patient alive when God perhaps would have them dead. ... Nineteen percent of these doctors took active steps that brought about the death of a patient. ...

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Doctors will not inspire trust unless patients are confident that doctors are for no reasons disposed to kill them; and have no inclinations to ask whether a patient is worth caring for or treating, rather than asking what care or treatment might benefit the patient. The practice of Euthanasia however, disposes doctor to kill certain of their patients and also inculcates a disposition to think of some patients as not having worthwhile lives. ... Marking the devaluation of human life would then lead to steps of ending the lives of mentally ill persons or non-terminally ill patients who are...

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Denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity is cruel and unfair. ... Assisted suicide is a good death for patients. It eliminates drawn out, painful deaths, lets the patients die when they want, and does not eliminate the patient's own self-respect. ... This is a very raw means for a patient to request assistance. ... Denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity on their own terms is unfair and unjust. ...

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In 1972, a petition was made to legalize marijuana for medical patients. ... This procedure enabled a few patients to receive marijuana from the government. ... Most patients never consider the idea of an illegal drug as being their best medicine. ... There are countless numbers of stories that impart unfortunate circumstances concerning ill people using marijuana. One particular story is about a man named Peter McWilliams, the author of the book Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do, and is a severely ill AIDS patient. ...

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The term mercy killing is usually referred to when dealing with terminally ill patients that are suffering. ... This is when the doctor takes an active role in the death of his patient. ... Basically the patient can choose whether they want to be left on life-support if they are terminally ill. ... The doctor is actually taking part in ending the patient's life. Even if the patient's consent is given I still see this as immoral. ...

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The term mercy killing is usually referred to when dealing with terminally ill patients that are suffering. ... This is when the doctor takes an active role in the death of his patient. ... Basically the patient can choose whether they want to be left on life-support if they are terminally ill. ... The doctor is actually taking part in ending the patient's life. Even if the patient's consent is given I still see this as immoral. ...

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I am interested in the subject of health insurance, because I have experienced first hand, the restrictions and limitations that health insurance companies place on services available to the patient. Five weeks ago, while in Mexico I became ill. ... I have heard that some insurance companies actually pay doctors to not run certain costly tests on patients and also place limitations on the amount of tests that can be performed. ... In addition, with limitations in the doctors hospitals may have to shuffle critically ill patients back and forth between hospitals, until they find a doctor that is...

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Terminally ill patients often request that doctors put them out of their misery. ... The possibility always exists that a doctor can misdiagnose a patient, or that a new cure is discovered for a formerly incurable disease. Patients could kill themselves needlessly because they think there are no other options in life. ... An often pondered question about euthanasia is whether or not the patient is of sound mental health. ... Any doctor who assists a patient in killing himself is commiting a criminal offense. ...

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Health care costs can also play a huge part in patients desiring euthanasia. These costs are on the rise, and many terminally ill patients do not want to burden their loved ones with thousands of dollars in medical costs. This burden becomes even greater when the expenses will lead only to the death of the patient. Many believe that legal euthanasia would allow patients to die peacefully while surrounded by their family and friends. ... If a patient desires to die, who is to tell him or her that death is not an option? ...

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Human Experiments Uncovered, that such experiments involved giving hepatitis and cancer cells to mentally, and chronically ill patients. ... For many years patients did not have rights. Common medical practice meant that physicians made decisions for their patients (patient rights). ... The doctors do not have the right to touch or treat a patient without that patient's approval. This is because the patient is the one who must live with the consequences and deal with any discomfort caused by treatment (patient rights). ...

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It is sometimes the act of ending someone's life, who is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. ... Usually, patients with a terminal disease see everything they cherished fall apart. For example, a cancer patient who is in the last stage would feel pain so great that, when he dies, he would remember the world not full of love, but full of pain. ...

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It is sometimes the act of ending someone's life, who is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. ... Usually, patients with a terminal disease see everything they cherished fall apart. For example, a cancer patient who is in the last stage would feel pain so great that, when he dies, he would remember the world not full of love, but full of pain. ...

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However, the choice to die or suffer should be right of the patient. ... According to Oregon law, "Doctors may provide but not administer a lethal prescription to terminally ill adult state residents. It requires that two doctors agree that the patient has less than six-months to live, has voluntarily chosen to die, and is able to make health-care decisions." ... The choice of the patient to kill himself ensures a patient's rights and prevents families from having suffer watching their family member die on their bed without being able to do anything to help him. ...

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Each Network member maintains information on patients who need organs and where these patients are located. ... Sometimes, however, the organ will go to a recipient who is not as close a match, but desperately ill, especially if the best match has a good chance of surviving the wait for another organ. ... What happens when one organ is available that matches two extremely patients? For example, how do doctors choose between two heart patients "say a young boy and a young woman who has just had her first bay? ...

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Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill people ask their doctor, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. ... The cost of a dose of barbiturates and curare and the few hours in a hospital bed that it takes them to act is minute compared to the massive bills incurred by many patients in the last weeks and months of their lives. ... Ironically, those who deny the terminally ill this right do so out of a sense of high morality. Don't they see that in denying the gravely ill and suffering the r...

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Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. ... Negative euthanasia is defined as the withholding of life preserving procedures and treatments that would prolong the life of one who is incurably and terminally ill and couldn't survive without them. ...

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What they ask of patients isn't really the problem of death with dignity; it is the lack of knowledge, and the lack of access. ... In order for patients to access this opportunity they have to move to Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Montana, or Vermont. ... If the warriors allowed for death with dignity back in the 1100s; why is the United States so against letting terminally ill patients dictate their final moments? ... Their culture believes that if the patient's mind is clear, calm, and ready for death that a compassionate person will assist and follow Buddhist morality. ...

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Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue marijuana legalization in order to treat terminally ill patients. ... Cancer patients, for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... These agencies believe that marijuana should not be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands more patients would be using marijuana. ... The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and that knew findings...

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The patient was then given marijuana and was able to continue through his chemotherapy and eventually was cured. That same patient no longer smokes marijuana and credits his life to the plant. It is also used as a last resort when no other prescription medication will work in the patient's favor. ... What patients absolutely need it should also be clearly outlined and not left open ended in the proposition. ... Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides, the ill persons have already seen first hand what the effects of the plant does for them. ...

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Physicians and medical personnel are currently permitted to ask questions to the patients regarding having access to guns and/or ammunition. ... The changes in the ACA deem that medical personnel will not be able to ask patients, even if they may be homicidal or suicidal, if they own guns or ammunition or have access to them. This is not to say that the information, given freely by the patients, will not be kept on a database via the health care system. ... There has been a lot of improvement made on health measures that can save and expand the days of fatally ill seniors. ...

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When doing so companies need to protect their patients instead they wait until death is upon them. ... Companies want to make decisions on whether the patient can or cannot receive prescription drugs, the government needs to fight for the patients lives and if not the government then the physician. ... Consumers as well as the government possess the right to punish the practitioner who solely obeys the false guidance of insurance companies seeking to scam the ill. ... Jones became lucky, astonishingly most physicians will not go out of their way to save a patients life. ...

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In states that have legalized "Medical marijuana", the drug is being prescribed for glaucoma, Crohn's disease, seizure disorders, nausea from chemotherapy, and cancer patients (Feature). It has been found that marijuana works significantly better than opioids among patients dealing with chronic pain. ... For example, marijuana helps nausea and gives the user an increased appetite, which would be useful for extremely ill patients and those undergoing chemotherapy (Nampiaparampil). ... This would be helpful to those with post traumatic stress disorder in that "marijuana coul...

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