Euthanasia In Canada
.... or by
omitting something(omission). Euphemisms of the pro-euthanasia movement,
include "right to die", and "death with dignity". The term "passive
euthanasia" is often applied to the withdrawal of useless treatment that is
onlyprolonging the dying of a person. This needs to be differentiated from
withdrawing of something that is actually keeping them alive, the withdrawl
of which actually causes their death. It has been pointed out that the pro-
life lobby will be split and discredited if there is an insistence by some
that all technological means must be used whenever possible to prolong life.
No ethical doctor insists on th .....
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Why I Believe In Voluntary Euthanasia
.... a person can in most states be forcibly placed in a psychiatric
hospital for three days for evaluation.
But giving assistance in suicide remains a crime, except in the
Netherlands in recent times under certain conditions, and it has never been
a crime in Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Uruguay. The rest of the world
punishes assistance in suicide for both the mentally ill and the terminally
ill, although the state of Oregon recently (Nov. l994) passed by ballot
Measure 16 a limited physician-assisted suicide law. At present (Feb. l995)
this is held up in the law courts.
Even if a hopelessly ill person is requesting .....
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The Case For Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
.... Passive euthanasia involves the patient's
refusal of medical assistance. It involves the right to die which is
protected by the United States Constitution clauses of due process liberty
and the right to privacy (Fourteenth Amendment). The right to doctor-
assisted suicide, or active euthanasia, consists of, "...a patient's right
to authorize a physician to perform an act that intentionally results in
the patient's death, without the physician's being held civilly or
criminally liable for having caused the death" .
The "passive" form of euthanasia was first deemed legal by the New
Jersey State Supreme Court in 1976 In re .....
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Regulate And Reform Euthanasia
.... patients' desire to die a
proud, quiet death. It also brought to the forefront the complications
caused by the advancement of medical technology ("Euthanasia"27).
Euthanasia has been practiced in Eastern and Western culture since the
beginning of civilization. The capability of medical technology to extend
life (as demonstrated by the Quinlan case) has made the issue of euthanasia
more complicated. Individuals should be allowed to "die with dignity" in
the event of terminal illness if he or she wants it. Terminating a
patient's life is much more merciful than allowing him or her to die a slow
painful death from illness. Thos .....
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Euthanasia
.... is in pain, that pain
could make them mentally stronger than if they give up and take the easy
way out. Life is pain, everyone goes through pain in their lives, but most
stick it out to the end, not giving up taking the easy way out. As long as
a person still is able to know what is happening around them and can
interact with the world around them it should be illegal for doctors to aid
in their suicide.
"Some say that doctor-aided death is widespread already, only
covertly, and that the Netherlands is a model of how to establish the right
to die by bringing the practice out in the open, where the medical and
legal sy .....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
.... because of Dr.
Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has
assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides
in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that
made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period
of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four
years in prison and fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993).
With the passing of this law I thought that most people would be
against the right-to-die, not so. In a poll cited in a 1991 issue of USA
Today eighty percent of Americans think someti .....
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Euthanasia
.... in writing?"
As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening, the
general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no may be thinking
of treatment that has not been tried yet or treatment that may come in the
future due to new technologies. Medical Advancements: During the last 20
years, technological advancement has increased more than the advancement of
the whole time of man before that. People that have the no opinion on
euthanasia may be thinking that the person may be saved by a sudden medical
advancement. It would be terrible for a member of your family to take a
lethal dose of drugs, given to .....
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Euthanasia
.... cases, the patient will die whether or not the treatments are
performed. In some cases, however, the principle of mercy may also demand
withholding treatment that could extend the patient's life if the treatment
is itself painful or discomfort. The principle of mercy may also demand
letting die in a still stronger sense. Under its second component, the
principle asserts a duty to act to end suffering that is already occurring.
Medicine already honours this duty through its various techniques. Ending
the pain, though with it the life, may be accomplished through what is
usually called "passive euthanasia", withholding or withdr .....
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Assisted Suicide
.... philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two
different categories, rational suicide and irrational suicide. A rational
suicide has been given five basic criteria that usually must be met for the
person's act to be considered rational. The five criteria which a person
must show for their suicide to be considered rational are, "the ability to
reason, realistic world view, adequacy of information, avoidance of harm,
and accordance with fundamental interests."(Battin 132) Another opinion of
rationality of suicide is, "it is the best thing for him from the point of
view of his own welfare-or whether it is the .....
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Suicide Solution
.... people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this?
They do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does
everyday. How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim
feels. Just as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in
peace, the suicide victim wishes the same. To die in peace with no
argument from others.
The argument of "look at the people you will hurt" also does not
hold. Imidiate family members will be the only ones to suffer any great
pain. Friends will go on with thier lives and in time forget about the
death. Imid .....
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Euthanasia: People Should Have The Right To Choose
.... active euthanasia
because in this case you actually kill the person rather than letting them die.
But both methods are used for the same end which is to end someone's life
without further pain for the patient as well as for the family. The only choice
to make after this fact is established is which of these means better carries
out the end. James Rachels, a philosophy professor, says that, "if one simply
withholds treatment [in the way of passive euthanasia], it may take the patient
longer to die, and so he may suffer more than he would if more direct action
were taken and a lethal injection given." (Rachels, p.111) This def .....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
.... only going to get worse, and eventually, after the pain and suffering, would
result in death, Sue wanted to die. She wanted people to remember her as a
lively healthy woman, not just a body lying helpless in a hospital bed. With
that thought in mind, Sue went to court to fight for right to die by euthanasia.
The courts did not agree with her though.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, proposed the creation of a new medical specialist, the
"obitiarist," who would assist terminally ill patients to take their own lives,
subject to strict guidelines.
His patient also suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. She was in bad shape,
struggling to hold .....
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