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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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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Primary caregivers are people who may have contact with the medicinal marijuana for somebody who is too ill to prepare it themselves. The Medical Marijuana Law does not cover all terminally ill or debilitating medical conditions. ... The public can petition the Medical Quality Assurance Commission to add any other terminal or debilitating conditions to the list. ... Primary caregivers are people who may have contact with the medicinal marijuana for somebody who is too ill to prepare it themselves. ... Whether or not, medical-grade marijuana can help many terminally ill patients and shouldn...

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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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Even some medical professionals think that a terminally ill patient does not in fact have the right to die. ... From there the patient must be able to communicate and understand the decision which is being made. ... 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 is a slowly moving but terminal illness. ...

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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. ... The patient, the doctor and a witness sign the consent form before the procedure is performed. ... That amounts to approximately fifty-thousand dollars to maintain a patient's life for two months. ... 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 ...

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The goal of the hospital is to the patient=s welfare and to help the patient to become well again. ... Although the patient=s medical needs are met, the primary concern is for the patient=s social and spiritual wellBbeing. ... There are times when a patient is suffering such extreme pain that either the patient or the patient=s family just wants the pain to end. ... The first one is passive euthanasia and is Athe practice of withholding (not initiating) or withdrawing (removing) lifeBprolonging but ultimately futile treatment, thereby allowing a terminally ill person to die naturally@ (I...

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Nursing homes and long term hospital care facilities seem to be filling up with patients rapidly. ... An article called, "Suicide Facts, Assisted Suicides Euthanasia and Terminal Illness", by Geo Stone, tells that "In the United States, treatment-refusal is the only legally-protected method for choosing death", only after the patients have been determined legally competent (Stone para 32). ... Natural to me would mean without intervention, but is that not the same as not doing anything to keep a patient alive or in other words not calling for help when a patient codes? ... With numbers like...

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He is, instead, innocently complying with a request from a terminally ill person to end his pain. ... Therefore, physician-assisted suicides increase dignity in death, and can be legally consented to by both the ill and the ill's family members. ... For example, the dying patient must ask on more than one occasion for a physician to help them die. ... The physician actually obtains informed consent from the patient. ... I suggest that the decision must be up to the patient. ...

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Marijuana has been known to help cancer patients, but the physician cannot prescribe marijuana as medicine. ... The prohibition of marijuana has denied critically ill patients across the United States a drug that would effectively treat their illness and relieve their pain. ... [O]nly about one in ten patients prefers Marinol to smoking pot"(44). ... This proposition was passed to ensure the health of seriously ill people. ... Research shows that it helps terminally ill people so how can our government still stand in the way of medical progress. ...

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Is euthanasia against the patient's moral values or not? ... Terminally ill patients must plan for their final days of life (with the assumption of quality care). ... Physicians must do what's best for the patient (Gale) which is to act in the best interest of the patient. ... But, this patient is suffering from excruciating pain. ... The patient hasn't considered anyone's feeling besides himself. ...

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Countless researches have been done over marijuana's medical uses and the conclusion is that marijuana is not the best available treatment for a patient. ... People believe that it is the safest and most effective medicine that can be used for terminally ill patients. ...

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