Euthanasia Term Paper
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god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine in
the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and
the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the
deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease.
A distinction is made between positive, or active, and negative, or passive,
euthanasia. Positive euthanasia is the deliberate ending of l .....
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Euthanasia
.... should be legalized because of that option
of dying. People say that their should be a option to live, but I think
that there should also be a option to die. Many also think that they should
stay alive because they don't want death for their own reason. Why not put
them out of there misery, if the pain that one goes through is excruciating
why not let them die.
Many states have laws that state, that explain the condition of when a
person is deceased. States believe that they should authorize the death of
a individual when it is not really there's to make. I believe that there
should be a choice of death or life. I am not .....
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Suicide - Is Suicide Wrong?
.... My mom felt
that it was wrong to commit suicide in this case because the Jews didn't
even try to put up a fight. As she put it, "Even if the Jews did lose,
their lives may have been spared." My dad felt that suicide was the best
thing to do given the circumstances
In the Bible, Mark 14:32-42 deals with Jesus willfully being arrested
and killed. Jesus knew that he would be killed, but he still accepted his
fate. My dad feels that his actions were acceptable because he was trying
to prove a point. My dad also added, "He was merely trying to stand up for
his rights."
1 Maccabees 2:32-38 tells of the slaughter of a thousand .....
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Assisted Suicides
.... at his 38th assisted suicide, fairly confident
that he will not be prosecuted or even suffer public disapproval.
Many of the people who have sought out Dr. Kevorkian have been terribly ill
and suffering, with no hope of long-term survival. Their stories offered
examples that built public sympathy for this cause. But from the beginning,
even among observers who believe that the desperately sick should be given help
to die, there have been questionable cases. For example, a woman in her fifties
allegedly suffering from early Alzheimer's disease was fit enough to play tennis
with her adult son shortly before dying. Another-sa .....
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Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
.... that prohibited physicians from helping their
patients die (Lemonick, p.82). Now, patients who are terminally ill and who
wish to die might decide to kill themselves in a manner that is less humane than
with a lethal injection or dosage of medicine. This new law makes it much
harder to get proper help in attaining an assisted suicide. This clearly would
cause many more problems than it would do good.
Last, there are many ways that using terminally ill patients that can
benefit science and the medical fields. Doctor Kevorkian has been advancing a
proposal to allow condemned criminals and terminally ill patients to perform
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Artificial Life Or Death
.... euthanasia is requested. Brain death is when all brain activities cease.
The lines are fairly well drawn in the law about patients who are
suffering but are still compotent, but when the law is asked to determine the
fate of a lingering, comatose, incompotent patient the lines begin to blur. In
many cases the courts turned to the patient's family, but what if there are not
any or they disagree? In such cases who decides? In a controversial decision a
Massachusetts court allowed that it would invoke its own "substitute judgement"
on behalf of a mentally ill woman. In a second case mentioned in the January 7
issue of Newsweek, a .....
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Assisted Suicide
.... get worse. "In China and
some parts of India, it is an ancient custom to drown newborn girls if they
think they will live a useless life."
The Dutch believe in the act of assisted suicide as many other religions.
They believe that it is easier to end a life so the family and the other people
will not have to go through all the suffering and pain.
Many Physicians today believe that assisted suicide is the answer to end
all the pain and suffering in the world. Dr. Peter Admirral is a physician that
is known for ending more than one hundred lives in less than thirty years. "The
emotion is what you prescribed or what y .....
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Assisted Suicide
.... Is
it morally right for a doctor to assist in suicide? Many individuals feel that
it is not. It is thought if assisted suicide is legalized throughout the states,
it will encourage families with terminally ill relatives to push them
prematurely to their demise(Carter 2). This is an outlandish assumption. A
family that truly loves one another would not urge a family member to rush any
decision as momentous as ending one's life. If there is caring among the family,
the suicide would not take place until is was utterly necessary.
Two other important moral questions also arise from this issue. First,
do our mortal lives .....
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Euthanasia Is Not Murder
.... is not an act of violence. In an editorial in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dr. Eric Chevlen argues that patients, who are worn
down by pain, extensive testing, and depression, will be easily persuaded to
seek assisted suicide (11B). Furthermore, Chevlen mentions that the courts have
decided that the right to die should be made available to everyone (11B).
Modern medical technology has allowed doctors to prolong life past the point of
a patient's natural death. In the case of euthanasia, the doctor needs to end
suffering from cancer or AIDS and assist the patient to die comfortably.
Patients are beginning to assert their right .....
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Euthanasia And Living Wills
.... in this
situation.
What is euthanasia? Euthanasia is not mercy killing. It has absolutely
nothing to do with killing. On the contrary, euthanasia by definition simply
means "good death" and in the applied sense it refers to "the patients own
natural death without prolonging their dying process unduly." What this
attempts to accomplish is to allow a person to die with peace and dignity. In
most cases life-support systems simply prolong the terminal suffering of a
patient by a few more weeks or months, they do nothing to return a patient to a
normal functioning human being. With most terminally ill patients life support
does .....
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Florida Should Legalize Euthanasia
.... of death.
Next, not all family life is harmonious, and underlying
pathology can often be exacerbated by the stresses of a family member's terminal
illness bring says an article in Law Medicine & Health Care of 1992. If
euthanasia is legalized the family members of a patient could sleep peacefully
knowing that they have been "mercied" and died easily and with little pain
instead of being kept alive by a machine or dying slowly and painfully from an
incurable disease.
Finally, let me tell you a true story from Vess Fast Access TO
Information On Euthanasia, about a 31-year old mother named Sue .....
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Suicide
.... hara-kiri, which means
"self-disembowelment" it has long been viewed as an honorable method of taking
one's life. It was used by warriors after losing a battle to avoid the dishonor
of defeat. Seppuku was also used as a means of capital punishment to spare
warriors the disgrace of execution. In India, widows allowed themselves to be
burned to death on their husband's funeral pyre, a practice called suttee.
At least since the 18th century, suicide has been thought of by some as a
romantic type of death. This notion led to the belief that some artistic
individuals writers, painters, and poets glamorize suicide, thinking that suc .....
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