Physicians helping a terminally ill patient through extreme pain and suffering presents a perfect example of mercy. ... Physician-assisted suicide, therefore , can show mercy to a terminally ill patient in severe pain. ... Some terminally ill patients live with pain everyday. ... The anticipation of dying provides solice and comfort to many terminally ill patients. ... Physician- assisted suicide, overall, can provide the comfort a terminally ill patient needs. ...

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The main reason for euthanasia is to reduce the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients. ... Anti-euthanasiasts lobby that euthanasia is murder and that physician assisting with the suicide should be punished, however; pro-euthanasiasts want to give terminally ill patients the right to chose and not punish the physician that assisted in the suicide ("Euthanasia 2) The patients' right is another reason for legalizing euthanasia. ... Suicide is legal according to the constitution, but patients that are terminally ill, disabled mentally or physically, or in a hospital setting might ...

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According to them, the terminally ill have the right to die when they want to, not when they have to. ... You cannot really treat the patients' decision to end their lives as an act of free will since the terminally ill often suffer from depression or a false sense of worthlessness, which may affect their judgment. ... It is during the time of a terminal illness that people have a unique opportunity to reflect on the way they have lived their lives, to make amends for wrongs done, mend family relationships and rediscover mutual love and responsibility that may not have been evident for ...

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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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Recent debates over active euthanasia, "killing" a terminally ill patient, in Holland, has risen the question whether euthanasia is immoral or a simple human right. ... It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. ... My opinion is, that anyone who is terminally ill, should have the choice, but to all rules there are exceptions, and to something as serious as this, there shouldn't be. ...

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They found that 47% of Americans are in favor of allowing physician-assisted suicide for those that are terminally ill while a close 49% are against it. ... All these things would be more or less a perfect description of the everyday life of a terminally ill patient. ... Most of the reasons why terminally ill patients request doctors to assist them in committing suicide might be caused by problems such as hopelessness because there is no effective treatment, anxiety over doctors' very expensive fees, and regret for their family's burden of taking care of them. ... A painless life u...

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Why should those who are in great pain or are terminal have to wait to die? ... What many people do not realize is those who are so ill they can no longer take care of themselves or enjoy the simple things have made peace with the reality of death and are ready to face it. ... If the family is not prepared, they cannot ask the ill member to hold on for them. ... The answer is people who are euthanized are terminally ill or in such discomfort their quality of life has gone down to a degree not worth living. ... Those who are terminally ill know that their life will not get any better. ...

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If a loved one was terminally ill, the family members could be tempted to put out of misery because the pain they saw from the ill family member was unbearable. ... Palliative care and hospices are couple of treatments available that can help bring comfort to the ill. ... Human errors, such as a doctor's diagnosis could be could be misinterpreted, meaning the patient might not even be terminally ill (Euthanasia 1). ... Not only does it allow doctors to become killers, but also discourages the search for new cures and treatments for the terminally ill. ...

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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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Pro-marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care and the National Lymphoma Foundation argue that Marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. ... Among some of the terminally ill patients in need of marijuana are AIDS victims, glaucoma sufferers, and cancer patients. ... I believe that the medical use of marijuana should be legalized in order to help people suffering from terminal diseases such as AIDS, Cancer, Glaucoma, and Multiple Sclerosis. ...

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Veggie Tales Why should a patient who has lost all powers of reasoning and who lives like a vegetable, completely hopeless of regaining a previous state of being, a terminal case who only wants to die, be forced to live? ... Ill patients throughtout the world are kept alive by the use of defribbrilators, respirators, pacemakers and other similar equipment. ... Enthuansia should become an option for terminal patients who know they have become useless to society. ...

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Furthermore, new medicine might be invented, also, it is an immoral act to take people's life even though the person is terminally ill. ... However, the reason for these patients killed by Euthanasia is they are too ill to choose their life, and it could be said that who decide to take others life should be assumed or punished , including their family members, because life is belong to patients themselves but not the family members" emotional. ...

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Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. ... Negative euthanasia is defined as the withholding of life preserving procedures and treatments that would prolong the life of one who is incurably and terminally ill and couldn't survive without them. ...

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"Humans have a natural inclination to continue life (Baird, 98)." Opponents believe that euthanasia acts against nature. Like animals, humans fight for survival. It is our goal to protect ourselves from harm and do whatever possible to stay alive. When euthanasia is implicated, it goes against our c...

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Euthanasia in America Recent proposals to legalize Euthanasia in the United States have raised the question of whether or not physicians should be granted the power to intentionally end the lives of their patients. It is my strong opinion that Euthanasia should not be legalized because it undermi...

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They do, however, accept two forms of eu thantos: caring for dying patients, and letting terminally ill persons die. ... Roman Catholics permit terminally ill patients to die by forgoing life-sustaining measures. ...

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This is referred to as assisted suicide, a physician providing an ill, yet competent person with medication to aid in committing suicide. ... Comfort care also suggests that doctors simply do what they can to make life happier for the terminally ill and their family any way they possibly can whether it is through kind words, bright smiles, or funny jokes; anything just to lighten the air and the shoulders of those being burdened by a great illness. ...

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There are many who believe medicinal marijuana is in fact a beneficial way to cure patients of their aches and pains. Studies show that in the late 20th and 21st centuries, medical research has revealed various therapeutic effects of marijuana ("The Editors"). Yet, medical marijuana is frequently fa...

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