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  • Euthanasia To The Applicant And A Permit
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    The Living Pain For centuries, death was measured by a physician feeling for a pulse and putting a mirror under the patient's mouth. If there were no signs of life-no pulse, no breath, death was certified. In the last few decades, however, a physician's duty has not been so simple. More intricate scientific tests may be called for; and the law defining the point at which life ends is not so easy to formulate. Many steps must be taken to determine death. At the same time, many steps must occur so...
  • Legalization Of The Voluntary Euthanasia
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    The Right to Die The word Euthanasia originated from the Greek language: eu means 'good' and thanatos means 'death'. Euthanasia (Greek, 'good death') is the practice of killing a person or animal, in a painless or minimally painful way, for merciful reasons, usually to end their suffering. However, some people define euthanasia to include both voluntary and involuntary termination of life (Humphy 12). Like so many moral / ethical /religious terms, 'euthanasia' has many meanings. Euthanasia, in t...
  • Support Pro Euthanasia
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    ... j ection of the importance and value of human life" ("Arguments Against Euthanasia"). By choosing to take a persons life rather than caring for them and nursing their sickness, we'd be sending a message of that person not being worth our time or care. It's also thought that if one chooses euthanasia there's the possibility they would be choosing to end their life too soon. One example of this is in the book Euthanasia is NOT the Answer: A Hospice Physician's View. The author Dr. David Cundif...
  • Decision Of Euthanasia For The Patient
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    Euthanasia In Today's Society Your wife of 50 years is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal disease. She lies in a bed, motionless and unaware of her surroundings. The medication to ease her pain has been wearing off. She just lies there in pain and unable to communicate with the outside world. The doctors give her a month to live at the most. What would you do? Would you let her sit in a hospital bed in agonizing pain for the last few months of her life, or do you help to prematurely meet her God...
  • Euthanasia In Many Cases
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    Euthanasia The modern legalization of Murder Euthanasia (better known as murder) robs one of a natural death. If Euthanasia is legalized, then it should be carefully regulated and practiced by a competent individual, not of the medical society, in that person's home with family member's consent and presence. If Euthanasia is not regulated carefully, then medical institutions will abuse this practice and consider Euthanasia an acceptable way of lowering health costs and giving up hope on a sick i...
  • Medically And Legally Wrong Euthanasia
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    Euthanasia Is Religious, Medically, and Legally Wrong Euthanasia is defined as 'a painless killing, especially to end a painful and incurable disease; mercy killing'. The righteousness of this act is being debated in several countries throughout the world, and Canada is no exception. Euthanasia must not be accepted for religious, legal and medical reasons, as alternatives to such a dramatic end. To begin, the law, both civil and religious, forbid killing. Individuals are prosecuted in courts of ...
  • Majority Of Americans Support P.A.D. And Euthanasia
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    Lisa, a 43-year-old woman was diagnosed with lung cancer, terminal disease. For the past 2 years Lisa has been receiving chemotherapy and taking numerous types of medication trying to prolong her life. This life prolonging treatment caught up with her. Everyday now Lisa has to battle just to get out of bed, everyday getting worse and worse. The doctors now tell Lisa she has six to eight months to live, and she has to receive 6 hours of therapy everyday. Lisa then breaks down in tears. She decide...
  • Euthanasia Being An Escape From Pain
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    Thomas Jefferson once said, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government". (Euthanasia). Euthanasia is related to this because it is the destruction of human life, and in today's society, medications can alleviate pain, a request for euthanasia is typically a cry for help, and suicide is typically transient. So therefore, there is no reason why euthanasia should be legalized. With today's modern technology, euthanasi...
  • Involuntary Euthanasia On Some Patients
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    EUTHANASIA Euthanasia (Greek, "easy death") is the act of inducing a gentle, painless death. In recent decades the term has come to mean deliberately terminating life to prevent unavoidable suffering. Passive euthanasia is discontinuing life-sustaining treatment of the ill or stopping so-called extraordinary treatment. Active euthanasia, or mercy killing, is putting to death a person who, due to disease or extreme age, can no longer lead a meaningful life; the term can also include an act of vol...

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