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    research. 1.1 Overview Of The Title Petroleum depots and terminal is a portion of the assets‚ where flammable and combustible liquids like petroleum are transferred to tanker‚ pipelines‚ tank wagons‚ tank trucks and are stored or blended in bulk for the purpose of distribution by tankers‚ pipelines likely to be refined‚ blended or stored at the above its flash point (OISD‚ 2007). It is very crucial to ensure that the depots and terminal have minimal fire or explosion risks especially for more flammable

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    Physician Assisted Suicide

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    of her daughter alone at home. Her daughter’s name was Lynn Gilderdale. Lynn was born September 20th‚ 1977. By the age of fifteen‚ she had become paralyzed from the waist down. It started out with flu-like symptoms that turned into a respiratory illness and led to excruciating pain and muscle weakness‚ anemia and seizures. Lynn became bedridden and unable to eat so she had to be placed on a feeding tube. The doctors finally diagnosed her with myalgic encephalomyelitis. This poor girl lived in her

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    A great number of terminal patients pursue suicide not because they are ill‚ but due to the fact that they are depressed. Assisted suicide should not be allowed because a percentage of the people who are killed are those who could have been treated for depression. A recent study conducted in Oregon of people who killed themselves by assisted suicide revealed that one in every six people were found to be suffering from severe cases of depression. Another study also showed one-in-four patients

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    Indented Berth Design at Guangzhou Container Terminal No.1 Objective: In this term project‚ a seaport terminal is selected to calculate the current throughput capacity based on the data measured in google earth and found on the official website. Then we should propose a modified berth layout by changing the existing berth to include an indented berth‚ and estimate the increasing rate of the annual throughput capacity. I selected Guangzhou Terminal No.1 (Nansha Port Area PhaseⅡ) as my study

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    ill patients like my grandfather‚ where death was inevitable and would have been less painful than living‚ euthanasia should be a consideration or an option. Euthanasia is a way of relieving ill people ’s pain and save them from the agony of their illness. The word “Euthanasia” comes from a Greek phrase meaning “good death”. However‚ in today’s society it means killing a terminally ill person as a way to end that person’s pain and suffering (Cundiff 1). In the 70’s‚ a movement that had tried

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    A majority suffered terminal cancer and died at home under hospice care.” (“5 Death”) Hospice helps ease the nerves and misery of the family of terminally ill patients and the patients themselves. This form of palliative care is popular across the rest of the country and still does exist for people who chose to die by euthanasia and naturally. The care is meant to remove the stress and frustration of living with a dying patient and dealing with a terminal illness. It is not limited to just the people

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    traditional remedies into an overall care plan. • • • • Mental illness is one of the most feared medical conditions among Arab Muslims. Psychiatric issues are thought to arise from a loss of faith in God or possession by evil. Those suffering from “madness” are likely to seek the help of a religious intermediary or a fold healer and may neglect formal medical care. Among elderly persons of Arab origin and their families‚ mental illness may be considered a

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    Imagine‚ in this moment‚ you are told you only have six months to live until you die from an inoperable disease. All of those family vacations‚ awards you have won in your life‚ and great achievements in your life suddenly become nonexistent. Not to mention‚ in those last two months‚ your family has to watch you sit there in a hospital bed and have your quality of life slowly dim to nothing. Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor at the age of twenty-nine and was given six months

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    End-Of-Life Care Role

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    It is an emotional time for the people who have terminal illness or diseases that can’t be reversed‚ such as when their cancer is at the late stage. A nurse has various roles to perform in regards to providing end-of-life care or palliative care‚ which are: care provider‚ educator‚ advocator‚ and facilitator (Lewis‚ 2013). As a care provider‚ a nurse would perform simple tasks‚ such as cleaning the patient’s room or adjusting the room light. As an educator‚ the nurse provides information to the

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    Euthanasia

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    an endless pain. Society should have compassion and respect to the patient’s decision whose life becomes unbearable.  Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. If a person with a terminal illness is suffering unbearable pain and wishes to end his or her life‚ is it wrong to help? Well‚ that’s why euthanasia‚ the intentional termination of life at the explicit request of that person‚ has been a hotly debated and controversial subject.

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