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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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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