If individuals are allowed to kill themselves with cigarettes that are legal, why can't terminal patients choose to end their lives when they desire to? ... Like Janet but now 24 years later, a woman named Brittany Maynard, 29, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. ... Keeping a terminally ill patient alive is a crime. ... Keeping a terminally ill patient alive brings an outrageous financial burden. ... But, if proper guidelines are in place to determine that the person is terminally ill and have a time period that they go by before going through with assistance there would be nothing...

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As scary as it may seem, the reality is that euthanasia is an escape for terminally ill patients, children, Alzheimer's, and other rare cases alike. ... It'd be great if everyone can live, but that's not likely with terminal patients. ... Death', a medical pathologist claimed to have assisted in the suicide of 130 terminally ill patients. ... Leave it to doctors like Kevorkian, and you'd have suicide clinics on street corners of California for the terminal ill and others alike. ... Once again overlooking the simple fact that, children grow terminally ill too and do die...

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The doctor prescribed a lethal amount of barbiturates to longtime patient at the patient's request. ... Polls taken between the years of 1989-1990 found that 5-7 Americans of every 10 believe that the terminally ill should be able to die with the doctor's assistance legally. ... Euthanasia is humane because, as stats indicate, it would end suffering of terminally ill, not bring flow of meaningless deaths by abusive doctors. When a patient suffers from a disease, the patient may become to ill to rationalize. ... If legalization of euthanasia is accepted the terminally ill will die...

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It is a movement in support of the free choice for terminally ill persons to determine the circumstances in which they want to end their suffering. ... Kevorkian, as he illegally assisted roughly 130 ill patients in committing suicide, through the use of his suicide machine, which delivered successive doses of lethal fluids. ... One example of medical professionals feeling deprived, is when patients are terminally ill and ask the doctor to help them end their suffering, and the doctor has no way of helping them. Because assisted suicide is now punishable with up to 14 years in prison, doctors ...

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Death, Kevorkian earned his name for his advocacy of physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. ... The Times also reported that he had become "increasingly dominated by the issue of suicide for the terminally ill" (McLellan). ... On June 4, 1990, Janet Adkins became the first patient to test Kevorkian's mercitron. ... Furthermore, the investigation showed that "at least 60% of Kevorkian's suicide patients were not terminal. ... In one court appearance, Kevorkian arrived wearing U.S. colonial-era attire including a white wig, breeches, gold brocade coat, and tricor...

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Active euthanasia is taking the specific steps necessary to cause the patient's death, and is performed by request of the patient. ... It should be the patient's final decision to have the choice to die with dignity. ... On the other hand, a terminally-ill patient has no other choice than to undergo euthanasia. ... The cost to keep the patient alive is not worth spending, considering the fact that the family is prolonging the patient's suffering. ... It is necessary to weigh the pros and cons of this social issue in order to see how euthanasia can either benefit or ha...

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