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In the paper “The argument for assisted suicide” the author analyzes the concept of assisted suicide on terms that do not suggest sin, mental instability, and can call into question policies of illegality.... Society has yet to acknowledge the benefits of assisted suicide when the decision has been made to end one's own suffering, but the event of suicide is best done under the care of a medical professional, or a friend who helps to ease the burden of self inflicting the event of suicide....
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This paper ''assisted suicide'' tells that assisted suicide is getting popular in most parts of the world even though it is highly controversial.... Some people argue that assisted suicide is a wrong concept both ethically and medically.... On the other hand, many people believe that assisted suicide should be allowed legally to avoid the pain, agony, and discomfort of the patients in no hope conditions.... In this paper, I, arguing favour of assisted suicide after analyzing both sides of the issue....
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The debate over physician assisted suicide The question of legalizing physician-assisted suicide has become a highly debated social, political and legal issue in the United States.... hellip; There are many patients who lead an agonizing, miserable deathlike life and one needs to keep in mind that physician-assisted suicide is just mercy killing for such troubled patients and the society needs to show them compassion in dying.... It should be kept in mind that there are strong oppositions from the part of physicians, legal commentators and sociologists as many hold that physician-assisted suicide is nothing but willful killing....
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In the paper “The Ethical Debate over assisted suicide” the author looks at the ethical debate over PAS and VAE, which has long been debated, with both sides not really willing to give an inch to the other side of the debate.... hellip; The author states that PAS or physician-assisted suicide refers to the practice of the physician giving the patient a lethal dose of medication upon the patient's request.... There is plenty of relevance in this debate as well to the other debate over the distinction between killing and letting die....
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Society opposes the "assisted suicide" and 28 states have the law under which assisted suicide is the crime.... assisted suicide is a crime because it involves the death of the person who would live otherwise.... From medical point of view, assisted suicide is wrong as well - the objective of healthcare is to make people healthier, not to kill them.... However, from ethical standpoint, it is almost impossible to label assisted suicide as murder or as a good deed because the rights and obligations of each side need to be taken into account....
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The focus of the paper "The Argument for assisted suicide" is on the difficulty in deciding, the concept of assisted suicide, the purpose of hastening, the loss of mental facilities, the expense of an unnecessarily prolonged extension of life, “the act of killing yourself”, suicide and culture.... Thus, the concept of assisted suicide when done with the purpose of hastening the inevitable where the disease has already prepared the body for death should become a part of a standard for care that is given to individuals who wish to avoid the pain of disease, the loss of mental facilities when dying, or to avoid the expense of an unnecessarily prolonged extension of a life that is already lost....
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The following paper entitled 'The Problem of Physician-assisted suicide' presents many incredible cures and miraculous recoveries there has been to an extent a long list of deaths that may or may not have been suicidal deaths by patients who have been terminally ill.... In the United States, there is a huge panic about the problem of physician-assisted suicide and the ethics of end-of-life decision making.... But considering the fact that illnesses which are not at all curable or take very long for a patient to recover from may, in any case, lead a patient towards attempted suicide....
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This paper 'Euthanasia – an assisted suicide" focuses on the fact that assisted suicide is also referred to as “mercy killing.... nbsp;… The debate concerning assisted suicide has moved past the sphere of the unconscious person and into the sphere of patient rights.... nbsp; Doctors, philosophers, and attorneys have debated the concept of assisted suicide from the beginnings of mankind but the broad public conversation concerning its legalization is only about four decades old....
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