Terminally-ill patients want to control their dying process and some choose to die with euthanasia. ... A lot of people say that they would die with euthanasia if they are terminally-ill patients. ... She also said that "I would die with euthanasia if there's a choice and I am terminally-ill patient." ... There should be the right to die when it is related to terminally-ill patients. ... In addition, doctors or family should urge chronically or terminally-ill patients to choose assisted suicide. ...

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So again Euthanasia should only be legal for those who are terminally ill, are in intractable pain, with no cure. In reality the basic question that is posed by Euthanasia is "Should a person who is terminally ill be given assistance in dying?" ... Should the state have the right to deny terminally ill patients in excruciating pain their wish of Euthanasia? ... Why would a persons rights be taken away if they are terminally ill or in intractable pain? ... In conclusion I feel that euthanasia should be legal to terminally ill patients and those in intractable pain. ...

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In the United States one's choice to live according to their beliefs and choices are duly recognized and embraced, but terminally ill patients who wish to choose to die with dignity instead of a painful and prolonged death, oftentimes face enormous challenges to obtain life ending drugs. ... Some patients enduring intolerable, unrelievable suffering as well as some terminally ill patients who are enduring lesser but still severe suffering need this legal right, for they cannot escape from their suffering without it. ... Failed attempts may cause the further development of devastating emo...

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Thus, in what became a groundbreaking law, in 1976, California became the first state to allow terminally ill patients to die when such a patient chooses to withdraw further treatment. ... Competent, terminally ill patients should have the right to avoid pain and embrace a timely and dignified death. ... Many believe that a terminally ill patient has the right to avoid pain and suffering. ... A compassionate individual must conclude that terminally ill people should be given the right to assisted suicide in order to end their suffering and preserve the individual right of the person to determ...

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Some feel that a terminally ill patient should have a legal right to control the manner in which they die. ... Many families of the terminally ill have exhausted all of their funds caring for a dying patient and would prefer the option of assisted suicide to bankruptcy. While there are many strong opposing viewpoints, one of the strongest is that the terminally ill patient has the right to die in a humane, dignified manner. However, dignity in dying is not necessarily assured when a trusted doctor, whose professional ethics are to promote and maintain life, injects a terminally ill patient wit...

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With bills filed in twenty states plus the District of Columbia, the fight to legalize physician-assisted suicide for individuals who are terminally ill will be a prominent subject in the US this year. ... All three of these states have strict guidelines and requirements to ensure that there is no misuse of assisted suicide; key restriction that these states have and common--and would have in common with the California's ELOA--is that, in order to receive assisted suicide in their state, you must be a terminally ill, and you must be a resident of the state in which you are requesting assi...

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Terminal, with a few months left. ... These are just a few of several terminally ill diseases where someone who has been diagnosed might seek out "Physician Assisted Suicide". ... The law, approved by voters in 1994 and 1997, allows the terminally ill to request a lethal dose of drugs if two doctors confirm they have less than six months to live, and the patients are mentally competent to make the request. ... In the first year under the nation's only assisted-suicide law, 15 terminally ill people in Oregon used it to end their lives, and there was no evidence they suffered painful, lin...

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For instance, someone who is terminally ill and is suffering everyday is going to die eventually. ... A person should absolutely be able to decide to end their life if they are suffering or terminally ill. ... The last attempt to do so was the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, which was passed by the Northern Territory in 1995, but was then overridden by the Commonwealth in 1997" (Williams, 2013). ... Those with terminal illnesses have even more expensive health care needs. ... A person who is terminally ill may choose voluntary euthanasia because they have a poor quality of life. ...

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The big question is should a person who is terminally ill, in excruciating pain and feels their life is not worth living, be able to end their life. ... Many religious groups believe that human suffering can be a positive value for the terminally ill. ... Others say that pain experienced by the terminally ill can be controlled with tolerable levels through proper pain management, so there is no need for suicide. ... • Sometimes a terminal illness is so painful that is causes life to be an unbearable burden: death can represent a relief of intolerable pain. ... From my own personal exp...

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There are patients with terminal illnesses who are experiencing a low quality of life with no hope for a recovery. ... Terminal patients should have a moral and legal right to die how they want. Denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity is cruel and unfair. ... Denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity on their own terms is unfair and unjust. ...

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If I were terminally ill, would I want to be euthanized so that I would not suffer anymore? ... Is it more unethical to make a terminally ill person suffer, or is it more unethical to go through the process of euthanasia? ... Also, what if the terminally ill patient is suffering from dementia or another illness on top of the disease they are suffering from, would the patient thinking be rational? Also, there have been several cases when a terminally ill person is given so much time to live because of the cancer or illness is beyond repair and the person outlives the set time not only by days ...

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Shortly after in May 2013, Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. ... The thought of dying from terminally ill brain cancer and never having kids was heartbreaking to her. ... In order for a person to quantify for assisted suicide they must be 18 years or older, a resident of Oregon, able to verbalize and understand the consequences of their decision, have a prognosis of six months or less to live due to terminal illness, and a convince a physician of their desire to end their life (Volker). ... Just because someone is living with terminal illness does not mean that they have to end...

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Even some medical professionals think that a terminally ill patient does not in fact have the right to die. ... This is necessary to protect the ill people who may be particularly vulnerable to being mislead or unaware they are agreeing to kill themselves. ... To deny a terminally ill patient the right to death, is to force the individual and their family to endure pain, suffering, and financial strain. One thing many people do not consider with cases of terminally ill patients, is that keeping them alive for what will be an inevitable death often cost thousands of dollars each month. ... This...

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Usually the incurably ill people ask their physician or relative to put them to death. Unfortunately, euthanasia is illegal in the United States with the exception of Oregon, which allows people who are terminally ill and in pain to get a lethal prescription from their physician. ... But murder is the act of taking a persons life against their will; on the other hand, euthanasia only takes the lives of those who are terminally ill or living with intractable pain. ... And it is more important for a fatally ill patient to die painlessly and happy, rather than suffer on through life. ...

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When suffering from a terminal illness, many patients will lie in a bed and wait to die. ... These options will help patients that are terminally ill be relieved of their pain if this is their wish. ... The Assisted Dying Bill states that for patients to be considered to receive physician-assisted suicide, they must be adults that are terminally ill that can make voluntary and informed decisions. ... Also, "74% of Germans said they thought euthanasia for seriously ill patients should be legalized"6. ...

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If they have a terminal illness, or other thing that can't be cured they should allowed to seek relief. ... According to Oregon law, "Doctors may provide but not administer a lethal prescription to terminally ill adult state residents. ...

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In some, the living will is in effect only if the patient is terminally ill and death is imminent.5 This can limit its practicality. ... Morphine given to relieve a terminally ill patient's pain may suppress respirations and bring about death. As long as relief of pain, not the death of the patient, was the goal, providing adequate pain control for patients with terminal illness can be justified under the principle of double effect. The guiding elements of this principle are that the course chosen must be good, good must not follow as a consequence of a secondary harmful effect, harm must...

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The ancient philosopher Plato wrote in his book, The Laws, that suicide is only acceptable for people that fit four categories: people who take their lives by legal order, people who are incurably ill, people who are disabled, and people who have disgraced themselves "beyond any hope of self-forgiveness" (5). ... One of those is a hospice (a health care philosophy and practice that attends to the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of the dying), which focuses on "alleviating the physical pain of terminal illness" (Williams 17). ... People with a terminal illness shouldn't have...

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People with terminal illnesses included. ... 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. ... When a patient is terminally ill it is outrageous to be paying tens of thousands of dollars in medical treatments that are not going to b effectively help him live a happy, healthy, productive or independent life style. ...

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If you are sick or ill, it would be very hurt and painful. ... What if you get a terminal disease that cannot be cured, and diagnosed by doctors that you have only few months? ... They are ill, and weak. ... Also in Gill's article, he states that "It is not intrinsically wrong for someone with a terminal disease to kill herself. Also, he says it is not intrinsically wrong for physicians to assist someone with a terminal disease who has reasonable grounds for wanting to kill herself....

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The causes leading up to the death of a person suffering from a terminal disease can often times be horrific and require the patient to endure incredible pain. ... The law, called AThe Rights of the Terminally Ill Act,@ was only effective when certain prerequisites are met, but was eventually overturned by the Australian Parliament in 1997. ...

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