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Euthanasia
Euthanasia is defined as “the act of killing an individual for reasons being considered merciful.” It is a planned self-deliverance from a painful and hopeless disease. Today’s society has many different names for it such as: suicide, self-deliverance, auto-euthanasia, aid-in-dying, assisted suicide, death with dignity, and ....
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.... 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 in the control of pain, nausea breathlessness, and other terminal symptoms that the last twenty years have seen,” (Euthanasia). If society as a whole accepted this concept who knows what will be short-changed in the medical profession. “Eve ....
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