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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Before he died, he wrote movingly of his experiences with another terminal patient. ... In doing so the patient is choosing for himself. ... This attitude would then carry over to their dealings with patients less seriously ill. ... Having new cures that are successful will reduce the number of patients wanting to die. ... Terminally ill patients are people who will never attain a personal existence, never experience life as a net value, and/or never achieve a minimal level of independence. ...

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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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Assisted suicide is when a patient is going through a terminal illness and is in a position where they have no hope to recover from their illness .In that situation they wish to die with dignity and control in opposed to wait for a medical miracle to occur whilst in the meantime the patient suffers from excruciating pain .Whereas murder is a situation where the murderer takes the liberty to end the victims life without their permission or desire to die. ... This type of euthanasia allows the patient's body to take a natural cause. ... There is no point in making an ill individual suffer ...

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