Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death persons who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. ... Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. ... Today it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease. ... 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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The first question that was said was: "When a person has an incurable disease that is immediately life threatening and causes that person to experience great suffering, do you, or do you not think that competent doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life through mercy killing, if the patient has made a formal request in writing?" ... The second question was about non-immediate life threatening cases: "When a person has an incurable disease that is not immediately life-threatening but causes that person to experien...

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AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and chron's disease are only a few of the many diseases that can be helped through the use of marijuana. ... One such disease is chron's. This is an incurable, and painful inflammation of the digestive tract that can have life-threatening complications. ... Cheryl is the mother of Simon Johnson, who has chron's disease. ... Glaucoma is an incurable eye disease that damages the optical nerve by increasing the pressure in the eye. ...

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Medical researchers are constantly fighting against these diseases to find a cure. ... Medical researchers will cure some of the major diseases by gene therapy. ... One childhood blood disease like leukemia are now using these blood cells to fight against childhood blood diseases (Lewis 1). ... AIDS is another disease that is incurable as well as diabetes and some heart conditions (Green 1). ... For many diseases could come back or resist treatment resulting the disease to continue. ...

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Medical science has eradicated so many dreadful diseases. It is still making tremendous strides in the curing of diseases. There was a time when diseases such as malaria, influenza and tuberculosis were considered incurable. ...

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Either way, the actual definition of euthanasia is, "The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment." ... Euthanasia is an easy way out for people struggling from diseases or incurable condition. ...

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Deadly diseases such as polio, tetanus, malaria, typhoid and others that no longer plague us were very present in the past fifty years (Hayes). Also, we no longer have to make instant funeral arrangements when we hear that a loved one has been diagnosed with a deadly disease such as HIV or cancer. Thanks to animal research we have discovered cures or effective treatments to many of the deadly diseases that used to plague humans. ... As we use animal research to understand more about humans and diseases, we in turn learn more about animals and diseases that affect them as well. Animal research ...

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