Physician-assisted suicide should be a legal option for terminally ill patients. ... Physician-assisted death involves help from a medically qualified practitioner in fulfilling the wishes of a competent, terminally ill patient to end his/her own life. ... In a survey of Oregon doctors, sixty percent felt they should be allowed legally to help terminally ill patients in certain circumstances to die. ... Terminally ill patients feel many medical professionals are more concerned with lawsuits rather than what may be the best approach in dealing with their diagnosis. ... Without first-hand exp...

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Compassion for the Terminally Ill When I was six years old, I had a blond terrier, named Dorothy, that had a bad habit of wondering the neighborhood. ... No uniform ruling exists on the law books regarding physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. ... Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, was sentenced to two terms of imprisonment for helping a terminally ill man to die. ... Kevorkian when was acting out of compassion for his terminally ill patients. ... Should we not show compassion and let the terminally ill die with dignity? ...

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Specifically, terminally ill patients suffer because they are denied the right to die. ... Many citizens and terminally ill patients propose to change the current law with proper steps and documentation. ... It has also been argued that once the government allows assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, non-critical patients could soon open their opportunity to be treated with death. ... Terminally ill patients have the natural right to end their suffering in a dignified and painless way if that is what they want for themselves. ... With a proper process it is possible to make assisted su...

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If you were terminally ill and suffering from excruciating pain, would you even consider euthanasia to be an option? Euthanasia has been such a controversial issue that the government does not allow terminally ill patients to perform euthanasia on themselves and it is frowned upon by healthcare professionals because of work ethics. ... To me, forcing a terminally ill patient to continue living is inhumane. ... " He helped 130 patients commit assisted suicide until in 1999 he was accused of murder, after showing a tape of the assisted suicide of a subject who was in the terminal phase. ......

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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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Terminally-ill patients want to control their dying process and some choose to die with euthanasia. ... All people have the right to die, but it has to be limited to terminally-ill patients and patients who have no possibility of being cured. 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. ...

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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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Palliative care is a healthcare practice that seeks to address needs of terminally ill patients. ... Appropriate Practices It is appropriate for doctors to have palliative care timelines showing all the approaches they are going t use during the end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. ... Patients should be referred for palliative care long before the illness reaches a terminal phase. ... Inappropriate Practices It is inappropriate to use sedatives in terminally ill people as a palliative measure. ... Besides the provision of physical health care, BSN nurses have been trained to offer s...

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Euthanasia is not the answer for the problems of terminally ill patients and disabled babies. ... Some terminally ill patients end their life to save the money their family spends on them! ... The request for voluntary euthanasia is rarely voluntary because terminally ill patients usually suffer from depression, anxiety about the effect of his illness on himself and those around him, this state keeps a terminally ill patient from thinking objectively about his situation. ... Terminally ill patients also adapt to a level of disability that they would not have previously anticipated they could l...

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Suppose I am terminally ill. ... The most accurate characterization of the survey data is that a significant majority of Americans oppose physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia EXCEPT in the limited case of a terminally ill patient with uncontrollable pain. ... Numerous sources and research studies have come up with the conclusion that the main reason for terminally ill patients choosing to undergo euthanasia is depression, a symptom which is hardly life-threatening. ... Take into account these are actual terminally ill patients who must seriously consider this option for their own we...

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In Oregon there is an exception that allows terminally ill patients in intractable pain to get a lethal prescription from their physician. ... So again Euthanasia should only be legal for those who are terminally ill, are in intractable pain, with no cure. ... 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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However, for some terminally ill patients the pain is unbearable often-lasting weeks even months. ... In the Netherlands euthanasia is an option for the terminally ill, in severe and uncontrollable pain, and for family members. ... To prevent Oregon from being transformed into a Mecca for the terminally ill, the patient must be a resident of Oregon for the Death with Dignity Act to apply. ... This brings the total number of terminally ill Oregonians who chose to take advantage of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act to 91, as of December 31st 2001 (http://www.deathwithdignity.org/resources/or...

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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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When the person was ill with any type of disease that could not be treated, or what is called a terminal illness, a poison was put in the cup of the victim. ... When a person is terminally ill, his family might suggest the possibility of euthanasia, when in fact, the person that is ill can only request it. ... The family may offer spiritual input, but is not involved in the final decision, nor can a family member request euthanasia for an ill family member. ... Some doctors are helping terminally ill patients commit suicide-a so-called physician-assisted suicide-without being punished. ......

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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. ... 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 pa...

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When a patient has a terminal illness, they are suffering greatly. ... De La Torre argues that the right to assisted suicide should be extended to patients with terminal illnesses. ... Strohm also suggests that a patient who is terminally ill may not want to prolong the inevitable. ... One might observe that terminally ill patients should be allowed the right to doctor assisted suicide. ... One might conclude that doctor assisted suicide for terminally ill patients should be legalized....

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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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Patients have relied on the wisdom of their doctors for centuries so it is a natural dependency that the patient should believe it when their physician tells them they have no other recourse from a terminal illness but death. ... If a person has a terminal illness and is suffering unmanageable pain then this is just part of God's divine plan. ... There are many terminally ill patients who cannot afford health insurance, therefore they seek death as an alternative to expensive health care. Even if health insurance is being used by the terminally ill patient, the health insurance profess...

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It creates conspicuous moral dangers for both the doctors and the patients. ... 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. ... In such circumstances, it is impossible to talk about the patients' autonomy. ... Those who advocate it, endeavor to persuade us it is the only reasonable solution for the terminally ill....

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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. ... This, of cause, leads to the ultimatum, that it is the patients own choice. ... From the patients point of view, a lot of arguments talk in favor of euthanasia. ... 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 t...

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A terminally ill patient is lying on her deathbed waiting for the cancer to take her. ... In the past couple of years, some individuals that have been diagnosed terminally ill have chosen to die with dignity. ... Although some critics may argue that the Dying with Dignity Act or the Right-to-die debate goes against the natural doctor's hippocratic oath, terminally ill patients have a right to choose when they die. After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, it should be the patient's decision when they die. ... Although this law would go against the Hippocratic Oath, terminally il...

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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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The cost may be much beyond what the terminally ill individuals' family can afford. ... Life is expensive, and in the healthcare facility, there are a handful of affluent terminal patients who can afford the cost attached to it. ... People widely believe that the terminally ill patients have only two option. ... In palliative medicine, a meticulous research indicates that unpleasant symptoms that manifest in the in the terminally ill individuals can be relieved by the already existing techniques. ... Conclusion In summary, euthanasia should be considered as a way of lessening pain to the...

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According to their law, a patient must be seriously ill, if not terminal, to ask for help with death. ... Also, the law applies to terminally ill children. ... It is widely believed that there are only two options facing the terminally ill; they either die slowly and painfully or they receive euthanasia. ... This is mainly because seriously ill patients are vulnerable. ... Kevorkian has treated and assisted in their death, for the most part, were not terminally ill. ...

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