In the Netherlands, voluntary euthanasia has been legal since 1983, where around three thousand people formally request to die each year. Belgium also recently made it legal. ... Sadly Dianne died, aged 43 in May, after losing a lengthy legal battle to allow her husband to help her take her life. ... Being involved in the taking of someone's life is against all doctors" ethics. ... The people who want euthanasia but are not legally able to, might commit suicide which would be more difficult for family members to see their loved ones die in such a cruel and nasty way. ...

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Therefore, euthanasia should be made legal in the United States. ... Neither the law nor medical ethics requires that "everything be done" to keep a person alive. Finally, many medical officials argue that euthanasia should not be legal because most people think it is immoral and unconstitional. ... It can help many patients and one day you might even wish is was legal. ...

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What is more, assisted suicide violates historically accepted codes of medical ethics, which have never sanctioned euthanasia since it is against the Hippocratic oath. ... Euthanasia, which gives the doctor a legal right to kill, makes the physician the most dangerous man in the state. ... Yet, giving the doctor the legal right to end somebody's life is a morally dangerous undertaking, which should be opposed. ...

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Voluntary Euthanasia involves a request by the dying patient or that person's legal representative. ... There are many pro's and con's to Euthanasia, however it can be split into three areas, the bible, medical ethics and peoples own personal reflection on the deep moral issue. ... At this time it is legal to turn off a patient's life support system, with the permission of the family. ...

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This is a touchy subject because there are a lot of legal issues and religious beliefs that go with it. ... 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. Even though they failed to influence the medical ethics of their day, they managed to raise questions that would surface more persistently in 20th century. ... I feel that if euthanasia was legal my Nana could have died peacefully and with dignity. ...

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As Holmes Rolston III argues, "Singer has himself proved blind to the still larger effort in environmental ethics to value life in all its ranges and levels, indeed to care for biosphere Earth . . . ... It means that all animals have an equal right to moral consideration and legal protection. ... Because of its emphasis on the prevention of animal suffering, some environmental philosophers criticize Singer as, at best, falling short of the appreciation of predation that any adequate environmental ethics must exhibit. ...

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It has allowed the public to support the idea of having the right-to-die, favoring possible physician assisted suicide when appropriate and has led to patient legal rights including the ability, through medical directives, to refuses any further rather life-saving techniques, such as do not resuscitate directives, that had typically been used in the past to prolong patients' lives. ... He truly believed that ethics and death comes hand-in-hand in relieving the suffering of those who need compassion the most. ...

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Statistics estimate that 1,000 to 7,000 individuals are put to death by euthanasia annually in the Netherlands, which is one of the few places where euthanasia is legal. ... The law permits patients or their surrogates to withhold or withdraw unwanted medical treatment even if that increases the likelihood that the patient will die, which means neither the law nor medical ethics requires that everything be done to keep a person alive. ...

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Granting the Right to Die At current status, taking the life of another person is considered murder, illegal and penalized by law. The process of euthanasia, though comes from a good intention to help the patients, involves the death of another man by the hands of the doctors. Therefore, it is i...

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If assisted suicide were legal, people would not have to go to extremes or take brutal measures to end their suffering. ... The outcome of these legal struggles is hard to predict, but the cause has picked up momentum since the story of a cancer patient, Brittany Maynard, went viral. There is opposition coming from people with concerns regarding doctor's ethics, as well as religious groups and disability activists who believe that assisted suicide suggests that the lives of disabled, old, and ill individuals are not worth living. ... Because assisted suicide is not legal in California, Ca...

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One such opinion is that of Ezekiel Emanuel, ethics chief of the National Institutes of Health, who said - regarding researchers who have failed to prove that pain is the essential reason for the terminally ill to use euthanasia - "To the contrary, all such studies have documented that physical pain plays a very small role in motivating patients" interest in or requests for euthanasia. ... Knowing this is it morally, ethically, or legally permissible for us to take their requests for death at face value? ... Daniel Callahan, president of the Hastings Center, an organization assisting termina...

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And it is a widely debated issue due to its involvement with moral and religious beliefs about who should have ultimate control over human life, medical practitioners and their ethics, and constitutional laws regarding the taking of one's life. ... As far as the law is concerned, those who are pro-assisted suicide not only feel that it should be officially made legal, but that it would be wrong to ban it, claiming that "prohibition of physician-assisted suicide handcuffs doctors who want to show compassion to patients whose bodies are irreversibly falling apart despite excellent medical...

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Euthanasia The word euthanasia is derived from the Greek word eu for good and thantos which means death and originally referred to intentional mercy killing. But the word it euthanasia has acquired a more complex meaning in modern times. Proponents of euthanasia believe that a dying patient has th...

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Euthanasia has been such a controversial issue that the government does not allow terminally ill patients to perform euthanasia on themselves and it is frowned upon by healthcare professionals because of work ethics. ... When it comes to deciding whether or not euthanasia should be legal the conversation of Jack Kevorkian almost always comes up. ...

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