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    consequences of your own actions and coward because you just want to run away and just forget about the wrong doings that you have done. And that’s my stand about abortion. EUTHANASIA: I am not against this topic. As what my classmates said when they reported this topic‚ there are two types of euthanasia. First is the thing that happens in the hospital when the patient can’t really live anymore and the thing that’s making him alive are the machines. I am not against it. In fact‚ this

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    Margaret Pabst Battin is a professor at the University of Utah. She is a professor of philosophy and internal medicine‚ Division of Medical Ethics. The thesis of this article is “I believe that this opposition to euthanasia is in serious moral error—on grounds of mercy‚ autonomy‚ and justice. She gives two duties concerning mercy‚ “the duty not to cause further pain or suffering and the duty to act to end pain or suffering already occurring.” For the first duty‚ if a treatment or test will not

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    The Morality and Legality of Voluntary Euthanasia For most people involved in euthanasia they believe that some conditions are so bad that death is a benefit over living. The motive of the person who commits an act of euthanasia is to benefit the one whose death is brought about. Debate about the morality and legality of voluntary euthanasia has only become an issue in the last half of the twentieth century. The ancient Greeks and Romans did not consider life needed to be preserved at any

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    Christian theological teaching and practice. However‚ despite theological teaching‚ the effort to help others is not always clearly defined or easy. In situations where humans experience the most intense suffering‚ some have turned to euthanasia as an answer. However‚ euthanasia is an immoral act based on Christian theological teaching because it seeks to offer compassion to a patient by avoiding suffering whereas the Christian idea is to offer compassion in suffering.

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    patients might be forced to choose assisted suicide due to their health situation. However‚ the choice of assisted suicide is made in the best interest of the patient and the competent patient can easily decline the offer if they do not wish to accept euthanasia. Therefore‚ it is evident that the right to assisted suicide is not forced upon any patient‚ rather an option for those who wish to die in dignity instead of living every day in pain and

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    with end-of-life decisions? An ethical dilemma is encountered by helping professionals who may be involved when a patient or an individual have the opportunity to conclude his or her own personal life due to a deadly disease. Assisted-suicide or euthanasia is an imperative ethical issue that is contemplated by terminally-ill patients and those who are suffering from a perverse discomfort.

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    Alayna Karas Professor Robert Victorin-Vangerud Ethics 102 28 October 2013 Euthanasia from Different Perspectives Euthanasia is a topic in which people have supported it‚ disagreed with it or are unsure of what they think about it. This is a sensitive subject because there are millions of instances we can evaluate and determine if they are morally right or wrong. All people interpret human euthanasia differently; some think we need it‚ some want it and some say we can control it‚ while others

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    Ethical issues: euthanasia and bioethics Bioethics could be defined as the study of ethical issues and decision-making associated with the use of living organisms and medicine. It includes both medical ethics and environmental ethics. Rather than defining a correct decision it is about the process of decision-making balancing different benefits‚ risks and duties. The word "bioethics" was first used in 1970‚ however‚ the concept of bioethics is much older‚ as we can see in the ethics formulated and

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    SUICIDE/EUTHANASIA: A Slippery Slope Effect Melanie Hart PHI200 Mind and Machine Dr. Martha Stillman June 19‚ 2011 There are numerous pros and cons for Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia that can be argued many times over. The reasons for these arguments include less pain and suffering for the patient as well as their families‚ a person’s right to die with dignity‚ and lower health cost; to name a few. However‚ there are those that feel that legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia could

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    ‘’Dogs do not have many advantages over people‚ but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.’’ conveys Milan Kundera‚ an author‚ novelist‚ poet‚ playwright and essayist‚ known for writing The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Animal euthanasia is the act of putting an animal to death in the least painful way as possible. The most popular way of doing this is by giving an intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital

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