This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the disease that it is killing him or her. ... In this section we will discuss the arguments in favor of assisted suicide: the right to die, the right to avoid pain and suffering, death with dignity, healthcare spending implications, palliative care, religious freedom, donation of organs, slippery slope to legalized murder, and living wills. ...

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The movement to legalize euthanasia began in 1906 when the Ohio legislature referred a bill to its Committee on Medical Jurisprudence, which proposed the legislation of active voluntary euthanasia. ... Similar attempts to legalize the practice occurred in Nebraska, New York and recently in the state of Washington. ... And the final and most topical question is should euthanasia be legalized? ... Thus patients have the legal authority to determine the time of their death, even if they don't have the legal authority to determine the method by which they will die. ... Dr Kevorkian has begu...

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The Right to Die: The Legalization of Euthanasia Christiaan Barnard, a South African cardiac surgeon, once said, "I have never seen any nobility in a patient's thrashing around all night in a sweat-soaked bed, trying to escape from the pain that torments him day and night" (Walker 18). ... Euthanasia should be legalized throughout the United States and should also require one of these three methods to be considered. ...

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On November 27, 1997, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide and thus began to follow the path already blazed by the Netherlands. ... Only pills were permitted while injections and other methods were forbidden to be used for death. ...

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