She longed to reach out and hug her husband and son sitting ever vigilant on either side of her bed. How she wished she could do something to ease their suffering as well as her own. ... 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. ... Palliative care is used to ease the physical and mental pain associated with terminal illness (Foley 293; Byock 116). ... Not only does hospice provide the terminally ill ...

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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). Should a...

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This is not to say that a program such as this wouldn't begin with pure intensions, but how long after would this intensions remain. ... These treatments allow people to go on and finish up the remainder of their lives with comfort and ease. ... There is NO RIGHT to sell heroin. There is NO RIGHT to take heroin. These are just a couple of things for which no legal right exists. ...

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The reasons will be delineated throughout this paper as to why we answer, "no". ... Doctor Joseph Evers says, "To say that a patient on a ventilator, declared brain dead and is certain to die, is no longer a person, is to deny reality. ... No one will want to fight to live or even have the expectation to live long if euthanasia becomes the common practice for ending one's life. ... An advance directive contains instructions regarding medical treatment requested by the patient, to guide health care decisions in which they are no longer able to participate. ... Gale supported the doct...

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It's hard to think about that day. Who knew it would be the last day I would spend with her. It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. But it didn't. It happened over two years ago and I was still struggling with this new reality. I didn't like it. I hated it. How could th...

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This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. ... "Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! ... Throughout the early period of the colonies a...

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