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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According to the World Book Encyclopedia, euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases. ... Usually the incurably ill people ask their physician or relative to put them to death. ... No one else knows and can comprehend the pain that the incurable face. ... But what most doctors do not realize is you should treat the patient, not the disease. ... So the question is not if the disease is cured or treated but if the patient is content and treated. ...

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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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Until now, euthanasia is not having the same point by the groves of academe, but to be sure just fitting for a patient who is getting incurable diseases or at death's door. In medical situation, a disease will let a patient feel painful. ... As an illustration, if one of your relations has got a serious disease and nearly to be on the danger list. ... A patient has got painful during the disease, it's really awful and let him/her feel depress. ... He knows his disease costs lots of money and his children time, so he decides to end of his life. ...

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He took his belief to action as he assisted the suicide process of a patient, who was suffering from Alzheimer; having exhausted any means of cure; willing to end her life before she met the late stage of the disease (Kevorkian). ... Often the initial shock of the diagnosis and the fear of the disease process may be overwhelming. ... However, when the patient is no longer willing to live so he or she doesn't have to endure the pain from an incurable disease any more, granting his or her wish to die is in a way actually saving his or her life from pain and suffering. ...

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Franz Napoli March 22, 2002 Persuasive Essay The Will of Dying Assisted suicide is when people go to a doctor and ask for help in taking them out of, their misery. Some people believe that suffering should not be an option and that laws should prevent this aid. H...

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Why do People Suffer? Since 2700 B.C. to present day the question of why there is evil and why there is suffering has been in the head of every person. The time when Gilgamesh was written it was the belief that there were Gods and Goddesses for every part of the universe. In the epic of Gilgames...

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Why do People Suffer? Since 2700 B.C. to present day the question of why there is evil and why there is suffering has been in the head of every person. The time when Gilgamesh was written it was the belief that there were Gods and Goddesses for every part of the universe. In the epic of Gilgames...

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For my RE project I have chosen Euthanasia to explain to you, the meaning of Euthanasia is "Also called "mercy killing". The act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable disease, a painful, disease...

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Most people who are for euthanasia have seen family members suffer from fatal diseases and think it is wrong to watch a loved one suffer. ... These essays stated that if a patient is suffering from an incurable, painful illness, they should be able to request that their lives be ended, and that a doctor be legally able to assist them in their dying. ... One of the reasons I feel very strongly about legalizing euthanasia is that I had to watch my Nana suffer form a horrible disease, Alzheimer's disease. ... Instead she had to suffer with the last stage of the disease for about 4 years,...

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Euthanasia or better known as mercy killing, is a practice of ending a life so as to release an individual life from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. This term is sometimes used generally to refer to an easy or painless death. Voluntary Euthanasia involves a request by the dying ...

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