These groups feel if euthanasia were to become a publicly accepted option to the terminally ill that physicians, family, and even patients may abuse it. ... Would the financial and emotional burden on the family of a terminally ill patient cause them to make an irrational decision to directly affect the life of the patient? ... Aware of Holland's policy allowing doctors to end the lives of the terminally ill by such means, the woman stated, "I am Catholic. ... Undoubtedly, euthanasia can be gruesome and downright immoral if not managed with extreme responsibility, but groups in support of...

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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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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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A patient with a stroke may be conscious but helpless. ... If a patient is in deep agony, the doctor must allow the patient to die in a peaceful way. ... The patient known better whether his or her life is tolerable or now. ... "Health Mood swings 'create euthanasia danger'" " Research showing that terminally-ill cancer patients can long for death one day, but cling to life the next has illustrated the potential risks of legalizing euthanasia, say the authors. ... The study, published in The Lancet, looked at 168 cancer patients who were receiving palliative care following a te...

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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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Abstract The question posed in this research study is, "Can music therapy cure a myriad of problems in medical patients?... Palliative Cancer Care: Pain Uses for music therapy extend beyond social hang-ups and immune response in patients, as it is being incorporated into cancer care as a form of pain and anxiety relief for the terminally ill. Palliative care is a form of care used to improve the quality of life for the terminally ill, easing their pain, mental, social and spiritual states, as well as treating the side effects of their disease early on (Archie, 2013). ... " Patients u...

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