Should a mentally competent, terminally ill person be allowed to choose the time and method of his or her death? ... A major concern is that if physician-assisted suicide is legalized it would be abused by family as a way to dispose of undesirable members, or by depressed patients who may have a curable illness but who simply no longer wish to live. ... The possibility of the occurrence of involuntary euthanasia due to abuse of a law legalizing physician-assisted suicide is a genuine fear of many opponents. ...

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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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In the United States there are four states that have legalized the action of euthanasia and they are; Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont (New Health Guide). ... Marilyn Golden, with the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund believes that, "The legalization of assisted suicide always appears acceptable when the focus is solely on an individual" and "legalizing assisted suicide is a deadly mix with the broken, profit-driven health care system we have in the United States" (Golden). ... Kevorkian used a method of assisted suicide known as the "mercy machine&qu...

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This brings up the controversial and moral debate of legalization of P.A.D. ... There have been a number of people supporting the legalization of euthanasia. ... This is one of many polls taken in the U.S. and like in this PARADE poll, most people agree with the legalization of euthanasia. ... If religious leaders believe and practice euthanasia why can our legislatures realize the benefits of legalizing euthanasia. ... If the legislatures refuse to legalize the act of P.A.D. and euthanasia, they better find more advanced methods of palliative care and better medicine. ...

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Legalizing physician assisted suicide gives a person faced with a debilitating terminal illness the right to end their suffering by taking a prescribed lethal dose of medication. ... Their views against assisted suicide are clearly against the idea; however, they say that people are in fear of life preserving methods that are taken so easily. The stand of the church is that many life preserving methods unnaturally prolong death (Gloth). ... Others worry that people may choose alternate more painful and violent methods of taking their lives, ("Assisted Suicide"). ...

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Saving Human Life For many years people from all over the world have been arguing whether assisted suicide should be legalized. ... The main reasons people still suffer are many medical facilities still use outdated or inadequate methods. ... Individuals that feel assisted suicide should be legalized need to think about the alternatives and what is available to prolong the lives of loved ones. New methods of pain management enable the ill to live better lives. ...

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Life's Sanctity "Do you know what it's like to be unable to scratch an itch or pull up a blanket? Do you know the horror of "living" with no sensory stimulation other than torturous pain for days upon days, weeks upon weeks, months upon months and years upon years" (Larsen 77)? In "Put Me Out o...

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There lies the solution to the drug problem; not in brutality, but understanding; in a willingness to go beyond the immoral, simplistic, and ignorant response of torture and seek, through logical and reasonable methods, to end the proliferation of drugs and the terrible pain they cause. ... Should drugs be legalized the prices would plummet and so all crimes related to drugs (i.e., crimes to obtain the money to buy them) would not have to be committed. ... Isn't human life though, according to those who take such drastically invasive methods to "protect" it through such reprehensible viol...

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There lies the solution to the drug problem; not in brutality, but understanding; in a willingness to go beyond the immoral, simplistic, and ignorant response of torture and seek, through logical and reasonable methods, to end the proliferation of drugs and the terrible pain they cause. ... Should drugs be legalized the prices would plummet and so all crimes related to drugs (i.e., crimes to obtain the money to buy them) would not have to be committed. ... Isn't human life though, according to those who take such drastically invasive methods to "protect" it through such reprehensible viol...

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In fact, there is nothing dignified about the methods they advocate. I do not think causing suffocation with a plastic bag, which is one of the methods the supporters of assisted suicide use, is the way in which people would like to die. ...

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However there are many religious, moral, and ethical arguments against this method that is currently illegal . ... Since it was legalized in November of 1997, there have been 43 people that have taken advantage of assisted suicide which is protected under Murphy Law. ...

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