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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