In this case, the appellant was prescribing pills to patients with HIV to aid them with suicide, as they knew it was a painful disease, and did not want to go through the pain and agony of living with the disease. ... However, if you take the realist law point of view, acknowledging that the personal background and experiences of a judge are critical in forming a judge's world view and that your experiences mold you. ... What is the purpose of the law? ... Legal realists look at the law (any given law) with a critical eye and ask "what is really going on here - what are the consequences ...

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In medical situation, a disease will let a patient feel painful. ... A patient has got painful during the disease, it's really awful and let him/her feel depress. ... In this situation, a patient would like to end his/her life, so he/she can choose what he/she wants to do. ... You and everyone has the right to do whatever you want with your body, with one exception: you can kill yourself. ... For example, if patients' pains are brutal, we can let them to choose what they want to do, because we do not like to see them feel bad and uncomfortable. ...

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Depression means different things to different people. Depression can be a symptom, (as when a person says, "I feel depressed"), a sign (when someone observes, "he looks depressed"), or a diagnosable disorder. It is important to separate depressive disorders from everyday "blues" or sadness, whic...

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What depression is, how serious it can be, and who suffers from the disease will all be put together in the following report to come to a probable solution. ... Yes, it is a disease. ... This disease does not care who you are. ... Watching television on any given night can give you an idea of how many pills there are to try. ... (Wingert) What depression is, how serious it can be, and who suffers from the disease have all been put together in the preceding report to come to a probable solution. ...

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You don't seem like yourself, are you positive you're doing alright? ... Is it a disease? What are the causes of it? What does depression affect in a person? ... After going through all the sections of my search of depression, I went to google to search "Is depression a disease journal" which gave me the interesting article "Major Depressive Disorder: What are the Facts?...

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According to the World Book Encyclopedia, euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases. ... But what most doctors do not realize is you should treat the patient, not the disease. ... So the question is not if the disease is cured or treated but if the patient is content and treated. ... You want nothing more than to ease her suffering, but you cannot. ... It can help many patients and one day you might even wish is was legal. ...

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You would probably want to get better as soon as you can. When you are sick, your family members, or friends take care of you, and you are thankful to them, but sorry at the same time. What if you get a terminal disease that cannot be cured, and diagnosed by doctors that you have only few months? You may feel excruciating pain every minute, and your family members take care of you all day. ... Through the pain and diseases, they have lost too many things. ...

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What's important is that the choice is available to anyone who qualifies."... Watching someone you love and care about actively die is devastating and painful. ... Cancer is not the only disease that can lead to a lingering but certain death. ... The Death with Dignity Act allowed Mike to take control of this terrible disease and cut short his suffering. ... I wish there was a cure for my disease but there's not." ...

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The Psychology of Adolescent Depression: The Under Acknowledged Disease Chapter 1 A symptom of the bad times is that you think that they will never abate. You convince yourself that you are doomed forever to a state of half-life. ... Once it has been determined that the adolescent has the disease of depression, what can be done about it? ... And what can these teens do about their constant and intense sad moods? ... Chapter 3 What are the clinical characteristics of adolescent depression? ...

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I had 2 aunts and one cousin that also had the disease. ... My family and friends would ask what was wrong and I couldn't tell them. ... It is difficult for people to understand that bipolar is a disease. Depression, is it a mood, or a disease? ... What Happened? ...

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Clinical depression is a physical disease therefore clinical depression must be treated by medical professionals who can treat this disease. ... In someone with this type of depression you will notice a nearly daily depressed mood and lack of interest in activities that they once loved. ... Like many diseases such as cancer, clinical depression will get worse if not treated. ... Most of what Hamlet does is lots and lots of thinking about how he can get revenge or if he should at all. He hesitates whenever he tries to take any action and when he does is misdirected or blames everyone else for ...

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Rather than listing names of disease that comes from it, the advertisements focus on connecting obesity to the concept of committing suicide while stimulating the current social issue of obesity in United States. ... Excessive overweight is associated with variety of diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes type 2, osteoarthritis, certain types of cancer, and etc. ... Hardly any country is immune to this disease. What's disturbing is that more young people are killing themselves than ever before (WorldPress). ... By relating the concern of obesity to such social issues, Kno...

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The code neglects to stipulate what insanity is defined as, what mental illness's are considered and recognised by this act and what steps should be embarked on when proving the divergent view. ... Without guidelines to the code stating what is/isn't a mental illness and what should be covered, offenders such as Wilson are slipping through the cracks of our judicial "black hole". ... To act with mens rea is to act without legal excuse ((Ten C.L, Crime Guilt and Punishment, 1990 pg 3) If you are legally sane, you therefore have free will and if you are not, you do not. You do not act...

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Depression is not only a state of being sad, it is a disease that conquers the ability to feel emotion. ... Society does play a major role in depression, in addition, they have these pre-conceived notions about what males should do and what females should do in life. ... To be Majorly Depressed you do not have to have been hospitalized or medicated. ... Teenagers are the most common to be heard of being affected by the disease. ... Although in some cases you might not be able to avoid depression, little things do help. ...

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This book was one of continuing suspense and you could hardly put it down for anticipation of what was to come. ... In her book, she openly reveals herself to what has been referred to as a shameful disease. She uses her abilities to show the everyday person that anyone can have mental disorders, even movie stars, actors/actresses, comedians and any and all celebrities as well as the general public to include you or someone related to you. ... She admits that her disease was a genetic, chemical imbalance in the brain. ... No, it was not that easy, but she had already been through hell, so ...

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We should choose what we want to do. ... If you can't do anything you"re not really living. ... What's more of a crime? ... What is living? ... And there can be no soul without intelligence and you know that!" ...

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For example, if a person has some sort of disease and is hooked up to all sorts of toobs and machines and takes many kinds of medication with strong effects and side-effects and also this person cant get out of bed because is crippled. Now, what kind of life is that? ... I"m still not sure weather I agree with euthanasia or not, because this topic has so many sides that are good and bad that it makes you think real hard. ...

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Book Report for I Never Promised You A Rose Garden I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg, is a partly autobiographical book about a young girl named Deborah. ... Greenberg has fought to help people see past physical and mental handicaps throughout her life, and I Never Promised You A Rose Garden is just one more representation of that desire. ... While in the process of fighting her disease, Deborah meets characters in the novel whose interactions with Deborah each illustrate Deborah's progression out of emotional detachment towards others. I Never Promised You ...

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But Janet didn't care what the environment was," he told People magazine. ... Afterwards, Kevorkian called authorities and reported what had happened (McLellan). As she drifted off to sleep, Adkins told Kevorkian, "Thank you, thank you so much" and he replied," Have a nice trip" (McLellan). ... Thomas Youk was a 52-year-old accountant from Detroit with Lou Gehrig's disease. ... "You had the audacity to go on national TV, show the world what you did and dare the prosecution to stop you," said Oakland County Circuit Judge Jessica Cooper to Kevorkian after sentencing him. ...

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If you have ever been in such pain, or extreme depression that these people have been in then the most common answer would be that death would be an easier way out than going through what they are going through. ... Appropriate treatment, however, can help most people who suffer from depression (The invisible disease). ... ECT is a highly effective treatment for severe depressive episodes (The invisible disease). ... This old diseased and suffering man decided to live. ...

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Mom and dad, I love you. ... Teens have died from suicides more than from cancer, heart disease, HIV, AIDS, birth defects, pneumonia, stroke, and lung disease combined." ... You feel that your friends know how you feel because they may have dealt with the same issues as you are. ... If you are not attractive to other people, then people won't accept you. ... I mean come on what have these teenagers done wrong? ...

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While modern medicine has made some miraculous leaps forward in treating many fatal diseases. There are still diseases for which there is no cure, and in some cases in the advanced stages of some diseases; the patient must endure uncontrollable, torturous pain. ... Youk was suffering with Lou Gehrig's disease (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevor kian/chronology.html). ... This law simply stated that if you were in anyway handicapped you would be put to death; so the remaining, superior individuals would live better lives (Encyclopedia of Bioethics 560). ...

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Many doctors appreciate what the oath stands for, but do not bind themselves to it. ... This however is simply a misguided understanding of the bills, as if you look into them there are numerous safeguards which prevent any sort of foul play or abuse. ... The first of which is a basic but necessary regulation that you must be at least 18 years old, an adult, to participate in this act. ... This is a key point because some diseases impair the individuals mind and if it has reached a high point of severity, the patient may be turned down from this act. ... One thing many people do not consider ...

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Feeling that you have nowhere left to turn, that the pain building up inside of you will make you burst, and always having that unsatisfied feeling rumbling in your body. ... There mind is poisoned with images of what they believe life is suppose to be life, not in reality of what it is. ... You feel that you really need something to live, when actually it is hurting you so much that it can lead to your death. ... Compared to many other diseases it is not that big, but is almost the same as many mental problems such as manic depressives and schizophrenia. ... They need to go talk it over wit...

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If one realizes that there is a person in need of help and that your services will relieve that person of his or her pain, then it is expected or required that you help. ... For example, if a person who has acquired the security of family, the effect of getting Alzheimer's disease can take away all of those precious memories. ... This enables many people to let go of physical living before the onset of certain milestones in their disease. ... Another way to look at it could be that to prolong life longer than what would have been natural is also not God's way and therefore isn't...

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