... persons ask their physician, friend or relative, to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. ... cripple, the retarded, and the senile? Courts and moral philosophers alike have long accepted the proposition that people have a right to refuse medical treatment they find painful or difficult to bear, even if that refusal means certain death. But an appellate court in California has gone one controversia...

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... cases in which family members would want the parent's money instead of it being spent for hopeless medical treatment and request that the parent be put out of his or her misery. There have also been some cases in which the doctor performed the inhumane task without any form of consent (Katz). Doctors should also disagree with this practice. Almost 2500 years ... their jobs to raise discussion and get people thinking about the important issues (Vatz). The tape aired on national television the process of the death of a human. If that isn't inhumane, what is? Euthanasia is unnatural and sh...

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... a death in which a person endures unnecessary pain to live a few extra days. More often than not patients die in pain, their desires concerning treatment ignored, after having spent ten or more days in the intensive care unit. Why should these patients be forced to live in pain? Why should ... a painful and incurable disease or an incapacitating physical disorder. There are two methods of euthanasia, active and passive. Passive euthanasia is the cessation of treatment designed to sustain life that can no longer sustain itself. Examples of passive euthanasia are taking a person off of a ve...

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... that doctors are for no reasons disposed to kill them; and have no inclinations to ask whether a patient is worth caring for or treating, rather than asking what care or treatment might benefit the patient. The practice of Euthanasia however, disposes doctor to kill certain of their patients and also inculcates a disposition to think of some patients as not having worthwhile ... suicide entirely. Society will begin to look at suicide as a good rather than bad, humane rather than inhumane, legal rather than illegal. It will also put doctors in a cost-interest position which will cause th...

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... it completely. So I think assisted suicide is a justifiable and inevitable way to treat terminally ill people. Second, using assisted suicide also can ease the burdens of patient's family. Obviously the treatment will cost a great number of money from patient's family, if family does not have sufficient finance and it is valueless to remain patient's life, assisted suicide is a right option. On ... the other hand, assisted suicide can be merciful to those who are suffering intolerable and unstoppable pain or distress. It would be cruel and inhumane for doctor and family to force them to...

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