Euthanasia
.... to be looked at which is future medical advances. It would reduce pressure on scientists to come up with cures and symptomatic treatments for those of us who do want to live, no matter the circumstances. It would have to be thought of through a different point of view, think about the past. If euthanasia had been legalized 40 years ago, there is a good chance that hospice care would not exist. I think that the improvement in terminal cared is directly effects how good treatments to minimize suffering. “If that suffering had been extinguished by extinguishing the patients who bore it, then we may never have known the advances .....
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Euthanasia
.... to be looked at which is future medical advances. It would reduce pressure on scientists to come up with cures and symptomatic treatments for those of us who do want to live, no matter the circumstances. It would have to be thought of through a different point of view, think about the past. If euthanasia had been legalized 40 years ago, there is a good chance that hospice care would not exist. I think that the improvement in terminal cared is directly effects how good treatments to minimize suffering. “If that suffering had been extinguished by extinguishing the patients who bore it, then we may never have known the advances .....
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Euthanasia
.... powerful, the light will soon burn out. There will be no energy in the world. Euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide should not be accepted or allowed by the government and people of the United States.
Statistics show that seventy-three percent of the U.S. population approved of some form of euthanasia. This is used constantly in debates to pass laws for making euthanasia legal. But the people are deceived by this number. When the poll was taken, the people were asked if they approved of "some form" of euthanasia. There are two forms of euthanasia, active and passive. It is the passive euthanasia that many people are accepting .....
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Euthanasia
.... others were made legal, it might easily be abused and people might be put to death for reasons unconnected with mercy.
However, many people see the argument in terms of their own right to die,when faced with the indignity of deterioration, dependence and hopeless pain.
Doctors although do at times deliberately give up trying to keep someone alive for whom there is no hope of recovery. There is a clean difference between giving a fatal overdose of a drug to kill a patient and withholding a drug or some other treatment that prolongs life in painful , circumstances which cannot improve.
There are different types of euthana .....
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Assisted Suicide
.... of 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 1"2) 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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Physician Assisted Suicide
.... “Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution”(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in from Seminole County, “found that Florida’s strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution entitled Hall, 35, and Dr. McIver to carry out an assisted death without fear of prosecution” (Sun-Sentinel, 1A). On February 11, 1997, Charles Hall’s ruling was overturn .....
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Society And Euthanasia
.... two main forms:
--Passive Euthanasia: Hastening the death of a person by: Removing life support equipment (e.g. a respirator) or Stopping medical procedures, medications etc., or Stopping food and water and allowing the person to dehydrate or starve to death. These procedures are performed on terminally ill, suffering persons so that natural death will occur sooner. It is also done on persons in a Persistent Vegetative State - individuals with massive brain damage who are in a coma from which they will not recover (Baird and Robinson, 1989).
--Active Euthanasia: Causing the death of a person through a direct action. .....
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Euthanasia
.... in New York and Washington State by a handful of terminally ill people and doctors claiming that the state laws that made assisting in suicide a criminal offense were unconstitutional.” What most people find troubling is how to define whom is terminally ill and how this process can be open to abuse. The definition of a terminal illness includes anyone who is reliant on treatment to continue living. Regardless, of how routine the treatment maybe, the person is expected to die within a year a month or even a week. All that is really required is that the person’s illness would eventually result in death. In an article from the .....
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Assisted Suicide
.... be a convenience to society. Section 241 is doubly flawed. It is not an especially effective drawback against those who seek to prey on the vulnerable, but at the same time it forces persons enduring intolerable suffering to exist in that state against their own wishes, thus denying them their right of self-determination as citizens in a free democracy. Competent, rational human beings must have the right to determine their own health care according to their personal wishes, values and beliefs, as long as such a determination does not jeopardize the safety or well-being of any other person. We do not believe, for instance, that .....
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Euthanasia, Mercy Or Murder?
.... live and suffer from pain, rather than letting them have a peaceful and less painful death through euthanasia.
An true example of someone who deserves a peaceful and less painful death is Susan Hess. She suffers from multiple myeloma, a rare bone marrow cancer that destroys the blood, bones, immune system, and sometimes the liver and spleen. She believes that euthanasia should be legalized. She states, “the worst of it is the disintegration of the skeleton...Unless one is lucky enough to die of sepsis first, the death is long and agonizing. The act of sitting up can fracture the vertebrae and lifting up the dinner tray can .....
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Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide
.... the most widely used right to die policy comes in the form of refusing medical treatment. This term is known as passive euthanasia. This is the allowing of the disconnection of life support equipment or stopping of life-sustaining medical procedures. There have been numerous notable legal battles in the execution of this policy. Such as in 1975, a young woman named Karen Ann Quinlan was in a coma after suffering a respiratory arrest. Her family undertook the legal battle to prove their daughter would not have wanted her life sustained by machines with no hope of recovery. They eventually won and had her disconnected, w .....
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Physician Assisted Suicide
.... "Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution"(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in from Seminole County, "found that Florida’s strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution entitled Hall, 35, and Dr. McIver to carry out an assisted death without fear of prosecution" (Sun-Sentinel, 1A). On February 11, 1997, Charles Hall’s ruling was overturn .....
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